LEGUMINIFEE^. 81 



948); but -whether in this county is not known. If not, the first 

 record is Goodcnough, about 1800. It has not been recently collected 

 in Middlesex.] 



174. T. frag^iferum, L. Strawberry Trefoil. 



Cyb. Br. i. 303 ; Comp. 144. Curt. F. L. f. 2 (drawn from a Middlesex 

 specimen). 



Wet meadows, sides of streams, &c. ; rather common. P. July — Sep- 

 tember. 

 I. Harefield ; Blackst. Faso. 101. 

 II. Bet. Hampton and Hampton Court ! ; Newh. By the Thames bet. 

 Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. About Staines. 



III. Thames bank bet. Twickenham and Eichmond Bridge. Eoxeth ; 



Hind. 



IV. Near the clay-pits, Harrow Weald. Near Harrow Ry. Station. Bet. 



Wilsdon and Neesdon ; Farrar. 

 VII. [Hyde Park ; Bkks. H. &] Lanes about Hornsey and near Pancras ; 

 Curt. F. L. South Heath, Hampstead. Eel Brook Meadow, Par- 

 son's Green. 

 First record : Curtis, about 1780, 



175. * T. hybridum, Z. AlsiJce Clover. 



T. elcgans, Savi. Cyb. Br. iii. 332. Syme E. B. iii. t. 361. 

 Waste ground and roadsides. P. June — September. 

 I. Harefield. 



II. Towing-path bet. Kingston Bridge and Hampton Court ; Bloxam. 

 V. Chiswick; Newb. Apperton. 

 VII. Green lanes, Newington ! ; Newb. About Little Chelsea and Parson's 

 Green, common. Site of Exhibition of 1862, S. Kensington. 

 First record : the Authors, 1866. Cultivated as a fodder plant, and hence 

 widely disseminated. 



176. T. repens, L. White or Butch Clover, 

 T. 2'rafense album, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 291 ; Comp. 141. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 



Waysides, fields, waste land, &c. ; very common. P. April— September. 



In all the districts. 

 VII. In London itself it frequently occurs, e.g. in the parks and squares, 

 and most pieces of waste ground. 



First record : Hay, 1670. A monstrosity in which the parts of the flower 

 are leaflike and the pedicels longer is frequently met with, and is re- 

 corded under the name of T. alb. umbclla siliqiwsa as found ' about 

 London ' by Ray ; Cat. i. 304. (See also Ray's Letters, p. 222.) ' In 

 the exceptionally hot summer of 1868, many plants in the turf of 

 Regent's Park became almost the plant noticed by Townsend in the 

 Scilly Isles; see Seem, J. of Bot. ii, 1, and t. 13;' Newb. 



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