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DIVISION i 
1. Great Purple Haresfoot. 
Lagopus purpureus maximus, 
The root is long, thick, brown, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. ' 
The firft leaves rife on fhort footftalks and 
are broad, fhort, and of a pale green. 
The ftalks are a foot and half high, of a pale 
colour, irregularly difpofed, and branched. 
The leaves on thefe are large: they are ob- 
long, obtufe, of a pale green, and foft to the 
touch, 
The flowers are fingly, fmall, and of a faint 
whitifh purple; but they are colleéted into long, 
thick, hairy fpikes, two inches in length, and of 
a woolly afpect. 
The feed-veflel is fhort ; and the feeds are 
large, and of a fhining brown. 
Tt is common in Italy, and flowers in June. 
C.Bauhine calls it Trifolium [pica fubrotunda 
rubra. Others, Lagopus maximus flore rubro. 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
- 2. Scarlet Haresfoot. 
Lagopus fore ruberrimo. 
The root is long, brown, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. ' 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, ‘tolerably 
upright, and eight inches high: they are of a pale 
redifh colour, and very little branched, 
The leaves ftand three together, without foot= 
flalks, but with a kind of feabbard at the bottom 5 
they are long, narrow, and of a dufky green. ; 
The flowers grow at the tops of the branchés 
in long and downy fpikes, the hairs of which are 
much longer than in any other kind: they are 
fall, and of a pale red. 
The feed-veffels are fhort; and the feeds are 
few, large, and brown. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lagopus flore ruberrimo; a name 
weed from Parkinfon, who firft raifed it‘in Eng- 
and, 
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HOP TREFOIL. 
TRIFOLIUM LUPULINU™M. 
HIE flower is papilionaceous. ‘The vexillum bends a little back, ‘the ala are fhort, and the ca- ° 
rina is very fmall. 
The cup is little, hollow, and divided into five fegments at the edge. The 
feed-veffel is fhort, and formed of a fingle piece; and the feeds are roundifh, The flowers grow to- 
gether in little heads refembling hops ; and they fade foon, but remain with the cup to cover the 
feed-veffel. 
Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria, confounding it with the daresfoot and others, 
under the common name frifolium. 
DIVISION IL 
z. Common Hop Trefoil. 
Trifolium lupulinum vulgare. 
The root is compofed of fmall fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, tolerably up- 
right, of a pale yellowith green, and eight or ten 
inches high. ; 
The leaves have fhort footftalks, and ftand 
three on each: they are fall, obtufe, of a yel- 
lowifh green, and fmooth. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow: they are 
placed together in little heads at the tops of the 
branches, refembling ripe hops. 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and the feeds are {mall 
‘and brown. 
It is common in our paftures, and flowers in 
‘July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trifslium pratenfe luteum ca- 
pitulo lupuli vel agrarium. Others, Trifolium lu- 
pulinum vulgare, and Trifolium lupulinum majus. 
9. The leffer Hop Trefoil. 
Trifolium lupulinnm minus. 
The root is compofed of fmall fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, ftraggling, 
branched, very irregular in their growth, and 
BRITISH 
SPECIES 
ten inches high: they are ufually naked toward 
the bottom ; but the leaves ftand frequent toward 
the top. 
They have fhort footftalks, on which they ftand 
in threes: they are fmall, and _heart-fathioned, 
and of a faint green. 
The flowers are fiiall and yellow: they grow 
together in little heads on fmall footftalks. 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and the feeds are {mall 
and brown. } 
It is comiion in our paftures; and flowers i 
July. Blea 
Ray calls it Trifolium lupulinum alterum minus; 
J. Bauhine, Irifolium luteum flore lupulina minus. 
3. The leaft Hop Trefoil. 
Trifolium lupulinum minimum. 
The roct is long, flender, divided into feveral 
parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, branched, 
and about three inches in length ; and they com- 
monly lie upon the ground. 
The leaves ftand three together, with very 
fhort footftalks, and a kind of ‘fcabbard at the 
bafe: they are broad, fhort, a little heart-fa- 
fhioned, and fmooth. : 
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