104 XXYL LEGUMINOS^: TRIFOLIEiE. [TrifoUum 



stalked hairy of few flowers, at length deflexed and throwino. 

 out from their centre thick fibres palmated at the extremit^ 

 (abortive calyces) which are closely bent down over the vl 

 flexed fruit. E. B. t. 1048. 



Dry gravelly pastures in England. ©. 5, 6. — Stan 3^6 or 8 



niches long, decumbent, hairy, with large, ovate, membranaceoussi^?):,^;/^^. 

 Flowers long and very slender, almost white. Peduncles at leno-tji 

 elongated; so that the heads of flowers reach the ground: the youno- 

 fruit then becomes deflexed, and from the top of the peduncle there 

 arise many thick short fibres with 5 palmated teeth at their extremity 

 which soon become recurved over the fruit and serve to bury it in 

 the soil. From the number of teeth terminating each of the above- 

 mentioned fibres, as well as from their comparative length and thick^ 

 ness, it is natural to conclude, with De Candolle, that the latter ar^ 

 abortive calyces. Petals partially caducous. Legumes larn-e, ovate- 

 globose. & > - 



*** Flowers sessile. Cal. with the upper Up remarkahly inflated after 



flowering ajid arched above. Standard deciduous. 



16. T . fragiferum L. (Strawlerry-Jieaded T.) ; heads with a 

 nmltifid involucre as long as the calyx at the base globose upon 

 long axillary stalks, calyx after flowering inflated membrana- 

 ceous reticulated downy with the two upper teeth bent down 

 stem creeping, leaflets obcordate serrated. E. B. t. 1050. ' 



Meadows and pastures. 11-. 7, ^. — Flowers very small, purplish, 

 red. The heads of flowers, nearly globose in flower but completely 

 so in fruit, are then an inch in diameter, and often more or less co- 

 loured, so as not unaptly to represent a strawberry. Mouth of the 

 calyx, as in the following species, very oblique when inclosing the 

 fruit, from the one half remaining unaltered while the other becomes 

 enlarged and inflated. 



17. T. * resupindtum L. (reversed T.) ; heads with a minute 

 involucre at the base hemispherical at length globose on stalks 

 at first only about as long as the petiole, corollas resupinate, 

 calyx after flowering membranaceous reticulated inflated hairy 

 acute, two of the teeth longer patent, leaflets obovate, stem 

 prostrate. E. B. S. t. 2789. 



Meadows near Bristol ; near the Poole ballast-quay at Ham, 

 Dorset; Cheshire, near New Brighton; Lancashire, near Everton. 



0.7. 



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*^*-- Flowers usually pedicellate (bright yellow). Standard persistent, 



deflexed, dry, enveloping the fruit. 



18. T. procumhens L. (Hop T.) ; heads broadly oval many- 

 flowered dense, pedicels much shorter than the calyx, standard 

 at length deflexed furrowed, leaves stalked, leaflets obcordate, 

 central one on a long-er stalk. E, B, t. 945. 



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