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I; L. cvr/iiai/dfiis (Common Bird's-foot Trefoil). — A pretty 

 familiar flower ; sk/ns prostrate, ascending : leaves usually almost 

 glabrous, or with few or many long soft hairs ; flowers in umbellate 

 cymes, 5 — 10 together on long peduncles and 'very short pedicels, 

 generally deep orange in the bud, and varying in the same umbel from 



ANTHVLLIS vrLXEK^fTA {Counucii Ladys Fin^cys). 



bright yellow to deep brownish-orange ; cahw-teeth erect in bud, 

 two upper ones converging : pods about an inch long, diverging 

 like the toes of a bird. — Paslurt s : abundant — tl. June — Septem- 

 ber. Perennial. 



2. L. Iciii/is (Slender Bird's-foot Trefoil), (hffering in its more 

 slender, thread-like stem, narrower, pointed leaflets, and fewer and 

 smallfr/Zi'itWjr, grows in damp places, and is less common. 



