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i. L. corniatldtus (Common Bird's-foot Trefoil). — A pretty 

 familiar flower ; stems prostrate, ascending ; leaves usually almost 

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

 cymes, 5 — 10 together on long pediincles and* very short pedicels, 

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



anthyllis vulnerAria (Common Lady's Fingers). 



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

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

 like the toes of a bird. — Pastures ; abundant — Fl. June — Septem- 

 ber. Perennial. 



2. L. tenuis (Slender Bird's-foot Trefoil), differing in its more 

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

 sm&Ver flowers, grows in damp places, and is less common. 



