Mr Burkill, Trifolium pratense var. parviforum. 31 



though seen on microscopic examination to contain two normal 

 seeds. 



Nyman 1 correctly called T. pratense var. parviflorum an 

 abnormal condition ; Penzig has given it a place in his Pflanzen- 

 teratologie 2 ; and Babington 3 , until the publication of Lange's 

 incorrect figures of the petals and ovary, doubted if it were more 

 than an accidental state. I have wished here to shew how it 

 is abnormal. 



Lange found his specimens at two localities in Denmark ; 

 Ascherson 4 records it as occurring near Karlsruhe ; and Magnus, 

 who mentions the foliaceous carpels 5 , had it from Memel in East 

 Prussia. Others have named additional localities. 



Less robust than the common form of Trifolium pratense, it 

 resembles superficially the variety of this species called T. micro- 

 phyllum by Lejeune in his Flore des environs de Spa B , a type 

 of which may be seen at Kew. As Lange wrote 'T. pratense var. 

 microphyllum' on the label of his specimen, I believe that he 

 recognised this : but T. microphyllum (T. pratense var. micro- 

 phyllum, Lejeune and Gourtois) is not an abnormality. 



Similar also in habit are plants with prolification of the flower, 

 which I have seen from various places in Britain and have 

 collected near Bagneres-de-Bigorre in the Pyrenees; and super- 

 ficially similar in the flower-head is T. pratense var. multifidum, 

 Seringe 7 — another abnormality, of which a type may be seen at 

 Kew. It is abnormal from sepalody of the petals. 



1 Conspectus Florae Europeae, Oerebro, 1878, p. 173. 



2 Genoa, 1890, i. p. 386. 



3 Memorials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence of C. C. Babington, Cam- 

 bridge, 1897, p. 421. 



4 Verhandl. hot. Vereins Brandenburg, xx. 1878, p. 110. 



5 Ibid. xxi. 1879, p. 80. 



e Liege, 1811, ii. p. 115. T. microphyllum, Desv. is T. pratense, but I do not 

 know for certain in wbat form or variety. 

 7 in B.C. Prod. n. (Paris, 1825), p. 195. 



