84 25. L^avMisosx. 



2960. — M. officinalis Koch. — St. erect. FI. yellowisli, in loiH- 

 racemes. Pods browjj. — Waste places. Cambridge ; Thetford, 



c. B. VI.— vni. e: I, 



tS. M. alba (Lam.) ,; wini/s and keel eqiud bui shorter than the 

 standard, pods ovate blunt m^cronate netted glabrous^ leaflet* 

 obovate the upper ones oblong serrate blunt, stip. awlsbaped. 

 entire. —ilf. leucantlui Koch, E. B. S. 2689.— St. erect. Fl. 

 white.' — Sandy and gravelly places near the sea, rare. B. VII. 

 VIII. E.S.L 



*4. M. parviflora (Desf.) ; wings and keel equal but shorter 

 than the standard, pods globular-ovoid blunt mucronate netted 

 glabrous. Its. obovate serrate at the end, stip. awlshaped entire. 

 — Slender. Smaller in all its parts than the other species, 

 6 — 15 in. high. Fl. very small, pale yellow ; cal. -teeth trian- 

 gular. Pods, olive-green. — "Waste places. A. VII. VIII, E. 



7. TEiFo'inrM Linn. Clover. 



* Fl, sessile ; cal. with an elevated thickened often hairy line or 

 nng of hairs in its throat, not inflated. 



1. T. praten'se (L.) ; heads ovate dense sessile, cal. 10-veined 

 hairy not half so long as the corolla, teeth setaceous cUiate, free 

 part of stip. blunt ovate abruptly bristle-pointed, leaflets oval 

 emarginate upper ones entire apiculate. — St. 16. II. — In the 

 cultivated plant the leaflets are usually all quite entire. Veins 

 of stip. much branched and anastomosing. Upper part, of cal. 

 usually hairy ; teeth 5, 4 nearly equal in length to the tube, the 

 lower one twice as long. Heads of fl. sometimes slightly stalked. 

 Fl. purplish, sometimes white. St. erect. — /3. parviflorum; 

 heads stalked, calyx-teeth as long as or longer than the corolla. 

 —Mountainous pastures, fields. ^. in dry places. P. V. — IX. 

 Purple Clover. " E. S. I. 



2. T. medium (L:) ; heads subglobose lax stalked, calyx 10- 

 veined glabrous not half as long as the corolla, teeth setaceous 

 hairy, free part of stip. lanceolate acuminate, leaflets elliptic or 

 lanceolate apiculate. — St. 15. 13. — Veins of stip. branching, 

 parallel, scarcely at all joining. Gal. glabrous ; teeth ciliate, 4 

 of them equalling or rather longer than the tube, the fifth ^ 

 longer. Heads of fl. large. Fl. purplish; St. ascending, zig- 

 zag. — Dry elevated pastures. P. VI. — IX. E. S. I. 



•3. T. och7-olencum {h.) ; heads subglobose dense stalked soli- 

 tary terminal, cal. 10- veined pubescent about half as long as the 

 corolla, teeth erect in frnit subulate lower one rather longer than 

 the tube the others two-thirds shortei; stip. lanceolate-subvUate, 



