DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 4^7 



The ilalk is ered and branched, and the whole 

 plant covered with a fofc down : the leaves are 

 ^ narrow, and nearly linear, emarginated at the 



end, the nerve terminated with a fpinule : the 

 Jtipuh are linear, and have long beards : the flalk 

 and branches are terminated with oval or cylin- 

 drical fpikes, covered wath a thick afh-color'd or 

 reddifli down : the calyx is bell-fhap'd and hairy, 

 and has five dents, which are longer than the 

 flower, and are feathered with down : the Corolla 

 is very Imall and reddifh : the feed-veifel is tu- 

 mid, ipha?rical, and contains one feed. 

 It is fuppofed to have an aflringent quality, and has 

 fometimes been uled in dyfenteries, but is not 

 known in the prefent pradice. 



fcahrum 7. TRIFOLIUM capitulis fcflilibus lateralibus ovatis, 

 calycinis laciniis in^qualibusrigidis recurvis. Lin. 

 fyft. nat,p. 543. Sp. pi. 1084. {Barrelier ic. 870. 

 Vaill. Paris, t, 33./. i.) 

 Hard-knotted Trefoil. Anglis. 



On dry foils by the fea fhore near Edinburgh, Dr. 

 Parfons, G. VI, 



The root throws out feveral tough proilrate (talks, 

 about four inches long : the leaves are a little 

 hairy, veined, wedge-lhaped, or wideft and 

 rounded at the end, and very finely crenated : 

 the Jlipula are oval and acute : the heads of 

 flowers fmall, flightly oval, axillary, fefiile and 

 rigid : the dents of the calyx are fliarp and fliiT, 



unequal 



