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than the standard, ^oc?s glohular-ovM blunt mncronate netted 

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

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

 other species, 6 — 15 in. high. PI. very small, paJe yellow ; 

 cal.-teeth triangular. Pods olive-green. — Waste places. A. 



vn. vni. E. 



7. Teifo'litim 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. 10- veined 

 hairy not half so long as the corolla, teeth setaceous ciliate, fi'ee 

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

 emarrinate upper ones entire apiculate. — E. B. 1770. St. 1.5. 

 11. — In the cultivated plantthe leaflets are usually allquite entire. 

 Stip. adpressed to petiole ; veins much branched and anasto- 

 mosing. 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, some- 

 times white. St. erect. — j3. parviflorum ; heads stEdked, calyx- 

 teeth as long as or longer than the corolla. — Mountainous pas- 

 tures, fields. j3 in dry places. P. V. — ^IX. Purple Clover. 



E. S. I. 



2. T. midium (L.) ; heads subglohose 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. — E. B. 190. St. 15. 13. — Stip. spreading ; 

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

 teeth ciliate, 4 ot 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. vl. — IX. E. S. I. 



3. T. ochroledcum (L.) ; heads subglohose dense stalked soli- 

 tary terminal, cal. 10- veined ^M6«seew< about half as long as the 

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

 tlie tube the others two-thirds shorter, stip. lanceolate-subulate, 

 leaflets eUiptic-oblnng the lower one emarginate or cordate. — 

 E. B. 1224. St. 15. 15.— Oal. with acute iteeth having 1 strong 

 vein. St. 1^ foot high, erect. Lower 1. on very long stalks, 

 n. cream-coloured, at length turning brown. — Dry gravelly 

 soils and clays of the East of England, P. VI. TH. E. 



4. T. incarndtum (L.) ; heads ovate at'length cylindrical atalkei 

 solitary terminal, cal. lO-veined hairy, teeth patent in fruit lan- 

 ceolate-subulate nearly equal rather longer than their tube and 

 falling short of the cor., stip. create blunt, leaflets obovate retuse 

 or obcordate, st. erect and together with the 1. and stip. villose. 



