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2. M.arven'sis(yVi\\di.); wings and standard equallonger than 

 the heel, pods ovoid blunt mucronate rounded and slightly keeled 

 on the back transversely plicate glabrous, Its. obcordate or oblong 

 serrate uppermost lanceolate, stip. awlshaped entire. — H. B. S. 

 2960. M. officinalis Koch. — St. erect. Fl. yellowish, in long 

 racemes. Pods brown. — Waste places. Cambridge: Thetford, 

 &c. B. VI.— VIII. E.I. 



fS. M. al'ha (Lam.) ; wings and keel equal but shorter than the 

 standard, pods ovate blunt mucronate netted glabrous, leaflets 

 obovate the upper ones oblong serrate blunt, stip. awlshaped 

 entire.— i(f. leucantha Koch, E. B. 8. 2689.— St. erect. Fl. 

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

 VIII. E. S. I. 



*4. M. parvifldra (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. 

 — 8y. E. B. 344. — Slender. Smaller in all its parts than the 

 other species, 6 — 15 in. high. FL very small, pale yellow ; 

 cal.-teeth triangular. Pods oUve-gxeen. — Waste places. A. 



vn. vni. E. 



7. Teifo'littm Linn. Clover. 



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

 ring of hairs in its throat, not inflated. 



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

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

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

 emarginate upper ones entire apiculate. — E. B. 1770, St. 15. 

 II. — -Lts. of cultivated plant usually all quite entire. Stip. 

 adpressed to petiole ; veins 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 ; head 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 (Huds.) ; Aearfssubglobose 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 apicxilate. — E. B. 190. St. 15. 13. — Stip. spreading; 

 veins branching, parallel, scarcely at all joining. Cal. glabrous ; 

 teeth ciliate, 4 of them as long or rather longer than the tube, 

 the fifth \ longer. Heads of fl. large. Fl. purplish. St. as- 

 cending, zigzag. — Dry elevated pastures. P. VI. — IX. E. S. I. 



