DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Lotus. 215 



Produce late, and inconsiderable. 



***** Standards bowed archwise, dry and membranous. 



T. proctimbens. Hop T. Heads oval, tiled, many- 

 flowered. Standard finally bowed archwise, furrowed. 

 Stems spreading, or trailing. Common leaf-stalk 

 longest at the base. E. B. 945. T. agrarium. C. 

 3. 45. 



Dry, gravelly fields and pastures. 



An. June. 



Leafl. inversely egg-shaped, notched at the end, toothed. Ft. 

 lemon-coloured, permanent, at length brown, and membranous, 

 and distinguished by its broad, furrowed standard. 

 Acceptable to cattle. 



T, minus. Less, Yellow, T. Heads hemispherical. 



Flower stalks straight, stiff. Standard nearly even. 

 Stem trailing. Common foot-stalk of the leaf very 



short. E. B. 1256. T. procumbens. C. 5. 53. 



T. luteum minimum. G. E. 1186. T. dubium, Sb.231. 

 Dry, gravelly fields and -pastures. 

 An. June. 

 Stems little branched, six to twenty four inches. Ls. the central 



leaflet on a more partial stalk than in TV. procumbens, or m 



Tr. filiforme. The leafl. of all three species inversely egg-shaped, 



notched at the end, and toothed. FL twelve to fifteen, yellow, 



standard not broad. 



T.jiliforme. Slender Yellow T. Clusters lax, of few 

 flowers. Common stalks hair-like, wavy. Standard 

 even. Stems trailing. Leaflets all nearly stalkless. 

 E. B. 1257. 



Sandy, or gravelly, grassy pastiires. Sm. Bullingdon Green. 



Southleigh Heath. Sb. 

 An. May. 

 Plant very slender. FL three to eight, leaning one way, yellow, 



small. 



LOTUS. Bird's-foot-trefoil. 



L. corniculdtus. Common B. Heads flattened at the top, 

 of few flowers. Stems lying down, pithy. Legumes 

 spreading, nearly cylindrical. Claw of the standard 

 inversely egg-shaped. Filaments all dilated. E. B. 

 2090. C. 2. 56. Trifolium siliquosum minus. G. E. 



1190. 



Open, grassy pastures. 



