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is not difpleafing to cattle. The flowers are 

 fwect-fcented. 



It has generally been efleemed emollient and digef- 

 tive, and been ufed in fomentarioHs and cata- 

 plafms, particularly in the plafter employed iri 

 drelTing blifters, but is now laid afide, as its 

 quality is found ro be rather acrid and irritating 

 than emollient or refolvent. 



It communicates a moft loathfome flavor to wheat 

 and other grain, fo as to render it unfit for mak- 

 ing bread. 



crnithop- TRIFOLIUM legummibus nudis oaofpermis fub- 

 leiaes 2, ternis calyce duplo longioribus, caulibus declina* 

 tis. Sp.fL 1078. {Pluk, t. 68./. 1. mala. Raj. 

 Synops. p, 331. L 14./. I. Oed. Dan. 368. opL) 



In dry or fandy pafliurcs, but rare* Rev. Dr. Burgefs 

 of Kirkmichael. O . VI. 



The branches are three or four inches long, and lie 

 profl:rate and clofe to the ground about the root : 

 the leaves ternate, heart-fiiap'd, ferrated, ard 

 Hand on long footfl:alks : the ftipul^ are lanceo- 

 late and grow in pairs : the peduncles are axil- 

 lary, fliorter than the footftalks of the leaves, 

 and bear moft commonly two, but fometimes 

 three or four narrow pale red flovs^ers : the pods 

 are fliort, blnnr, ere6l, and flightly recurv'd, 

 each containing fix or eight {c^d%. 



** Lotoidea leguminihus te^is^ polyfpermis, 



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