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'** Lupulina vexillis coroll.e inflexis, 



agrarium 9 7 rifqLIUM fpicis ovalibus imbricatis, vexillo 



deflexis perfiftentibns, calycibus nudis, caule ercdo. 

 Sp, pi, 1087. (Ger. em. 11 86./. 6. Moris hijl. f, 

 2. t. 13./. I y 2. majus. VailL Paris, t. 22./. 3. 

 opt.^ 



Hop Trefoil. Anglis. 



In dry paftures and corn fields frequent, q, VI. 

 VII. 



The ftalks are hard, branched, a foot high, gene- 

 rally erecl, but foinetimes procumbent : the leaves 

 are nervous and fmooth, and either nearly oval 

 or cordate, or like the fe^or of a circle, with 

 the rays entire and the arc ferrated : the Jl'tpul^ 

 are largeft near the top of the flaik, and of an 

 oval-lanceolate figure : the floral fplkes grow on 

 long, naked peduncles, nearly oval, and confifl; 

 of numerous flowers, clofely {ct together : the 

 flowers are yellow, and fl:and each on its own 

 fliort pedicle, and when ripe are pendulous, dry, 

 and rufl:ling : the calyx., except tv^o or three hairs 

 at the apex, before flowering is fmooth : the vex- 

 ilium is heart-fliap'd, deflex'd, fl:riated, and flightly 

 ferrated : thejiliqua contains one oval, thick feed, 

 Handing on a pedicle. 



It is an excellent fodder for cattle. 



procumbens x. fpicis ovalibus imbricatis, vexillis deflexis per- 

 ^^' fiftentibus J caulibus procumbentibus. Sp. pL 



10H8. 



