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Th BRITISH HERBAL, 
9. Great flowered. purple Trefoil. 
Trifolium Alpinum flore magno rubente. 
The root is thick, woody, brown, divided in- 
to many parts, and furnifhed with numerous 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are placed on long, flender, re- 
difh footftalks ; and they are very long, very nar- 
row, and of a yellowifh green: they are not at all 
ferrated at the edges, but pointed at the ends, 
“The ftalks are weak and fmall: they are of a 
pale green, not at all branched, and about fix 
inches high. 
Toward the bottom they have a leaf or two; 
but the reft is naked. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in a 
very thick, fhort head; and they are large and 
purple. 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and the feeds are few 
and brown. 
It is a native of the Alps, and flowers in July. 
Morifon calls it Trifolium purpureum Alpinum. 
Others, Trifolium Alpinum. 
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10. Large yellowifh-flowered Trefoil. 
Trifolium majus flore flavefcenie. 
The root is long and white, divided into feve- 
ral parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are fupported on long, whitifh 
footftalks : they are broad, fhort, of a frefh greens 
and on the under part each has a black fpot. 
The ftalks are numerous, procumbent, and 
{preading : they are of afoot long, jointed, hol- 
low, and of a pale colour. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are paler. 
The flowers are large, and of a cream-colour : 
they ftand in round loofe ‘heads on the tops of 
the ftalks. 
The feed-veffels are fhort and thick, and the 
feeds are brown, : 
It is frequent in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Morifon calls it Trifolium pratenfe caule Siftulofo 
foliis fubtus maculatis flore ochro leuco, ‘ 
Tt agrees with the reft in qualities, affording a 
good, wholefome, and nourifhing food to cattle, 
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HE flowers are papilionaceous and fmall. The vexillum is turned back. The ale are hort, 
ments. 
and the carina is very fmall. The cup is as long as the flower, and is divided into five. fe 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and formed of a fingle valve; and the feeds are few. 
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The head 
into which the flowers are colleéted, is oval and hairy ; the hairs growing from the cups: and the leaves 
ftand three together. _ 
Linnzeus places this among the diadelphia decandria; the threads in the fower being ten, 
in two 
affortments. He confounds it with the common trefoil, and many other genera, under the common 
name érifolium, But this is erroneous ; the hairynefs of the heads is an obvious diftinétive character 
of the genus; and the length of the cups, and their downy covering, which are both univerfal to all 
the kinds, are certain charaéterifticks, 
D°T.V_ TES TcOpN oT: 
1. Common Haresfoot. 
Lagopus vulgaris, 
The root is fmall, oblong, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, branched, and 
not very upright: they are ten inches long, and 
of a pale redifh colour. 
The leaves ftand at diftances, three together, 
with fcarce any footftalks: they are {mall, nar- 
row, blunt at the ends, and whitith. 
The flowers are very {mall, and of a pale red : 
they ftand in oval or oblong fpikes or heads at 
the tops of the ftalks, and the hairynefs of their 
cups gives the whole a downy appearance, and 
whitifh red colour. 
The feed-veflels are very fmall, and the feeds 
are minute. 
It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trifolium arvenfe bumile Jpi- 
catum five logopus. Others, Lagopus vulgaris. 
It is an allringent, and deferves to be brought 
into ufe in medicine. The whole plant dried and 
powdered, and given half a dram for a dofe, is 
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good againft loofeneffes with bloody ftools, The 
decoction an{wers the fame purpofe. 
2. Dwarf Sea Haresfoot. 
Lagopus pufillus maritimus. 
The root is long, flender, whitith, with a tinge 
of red, divided into feveral parts, and furnifhed 
with many fibres, 
The ftalks are numerous, and fpread them- 
felves upon the ground: they are of a pale redifh 
colour, very much branched, and three or four 
inches long. 
The leaves are numerous : they grow in 
threes, without any footltalks ; and they are 
narrow, fharp-pointed, of a pale green colour, 
and covered with a foft down. 
The flowers grow in roundith heads of a very 
pale colour, white, with a tinge of purplith’, 
and thefe ftand in great number without. foot 
ftalks in the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feed-vefféls are minute, and the feeds are 
_ brown. 
It is not unfrequent on the coaft of Suffex, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Lobel calls it Lagopus perpufillus fupinus elegan- 
tiffimus Anglicus, and others take the fame name 
from him, 
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