76 25. LEGUMINOSE. 
plant is scarcely a Trifolium or Trigonella.—Dry gravelly places. 
A. VI. VII 
xe FI. sessile, throat of the calyx naked within inflated after 
flowering and arched above. 
17. T. fragiferum (L.); heads globose, peduncles axillary 
exceeding the leaves, involucre multifid equalling the calyx, calyx 
of the fruit membranous reticulated downy, stip. ovate with a long 
attenuated point, leaflets obovate emargimate minutely serrate, 
seeds 2.—H. B. 1050. St. 16.8.—St. creeping. FI. purplish red. 
Heads large, remarkable when in fruit for their curious calyces. 
Pod included.— Damp pastures. P. VII. VII. 
(18. T. resupinatum (L.); heads hemispherical at length glo- 
bose, peduncles axillary equalling the leaves, bracts minute, calyx 
of the fruit membranous reticulated woolly, stip. subulate-lan- 
ceolate from an ovate base, leaflets obovate minutely serrate, seeds 
2.—E. B. 8. 2789. (bad) St. 16. 9.—St. prostrate or ascending. 
Fl. small, resupinate. Pod included.—Below Bristol, now Jost. 
Poole, Dorset. Belfast, Mr. Thompson. A. VII.] E. 1. 
#*x%* FT, stalked, throat of the calyx naked within not inflated, 
cor. persistent, standard deflened and covering the pod. 
19. T. procumbens (L.); heads oval dense with about 40 fi., 
ped. axillary equalling or exceeding the leaves, fl. at length re- 
flexed, style much shorter than the pod, stip. ovate acute entire, 
Its. obovate emarginate, central petiole longest, seeds elliptical 
radicle scarcely prominent.—E. B. 945. S¢. 15. 15.—Primary 
stem erect, branches procumbent or ascending. Pod pointed at 
both ends. Peduncles sometimes shorter at others longer than 
the leaves. FI. yellow. Radicle causing a slight irregularity in 
the otherwise regularly elliptical seeds. [T. patens (Schreb.), 
style as long as the pod, radicle prominent through $ the length 
of the seed, stip. half-cordate usually denticulate; will probably 
be found in England.|—Dry pastures. A. VL—VIII. 
20. T. minus (Sm.); heads close about 12-flowered, peduncles 
axillary, pedicels very short, fl. at length reflexed, standard fur- 
rowed truncate quite covering the pod, style much shorter than 
the pod, stip. ovate, leaflets obcordate intermediate one stalked. 
—EF. B. 1256. T. filiforme Koch.—Dry places. A. VI.—VIII. 
21. T. filiforme (L.); fl. few (3—5) in lax racemes, peduncles 
axillary, pedicels as long as the calyx-tube, fl. at length reflexed, 
standard not furrowed deeply notched scarcely covering the pod. 
—E. B. 1257. T. micranthum Koch.—Standard much narrower 
m prepenion than in T. minus. See Phyt. i. 293.—Dry places. 
A. VI. VIL. 
