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THE PEAFLOWER TRIBE. 



1. Crimson Clover. Trifolium incarnatum, Linu. 

 (Fig. 241.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2950.) 



A softly hairy annual, erect or nearly 

 so, often slender and starved-looking 

 when wild, with ovoid or shortly oblong 

 terminal flower-heads ; but in rich soils, 

 or when cultivated, attaining 1\ to 2 

 feet in height, with oblong or cylindrical 

 flower-heads sometimes 2 inches long. 

 Stipules broad and membranous. Leaf- 

 lets very broadly obovate or obcordate. 

 Calyx softly hairy, with narrow pointed 

 teeth nearly equal in length. Corolla of 

 a rich crimson, or of a pale cream- colour, 

 4 to 6 lines long. 



In open places, especially near the sea, 

 in southern Europe, and, having been long 

 cultivated for fodder, has become natu- 

 ralized in various parts of central and 

 even northern Europe. In Britain, the 

 pale yellow variety, the most common in 

 a truly wild state on the Continent, ap- 

 pears to be indigenous on the coast of Cornwall, near the Lizard Point; 

 the cultivated crimson variety has only established itself in a few places 

 in southern England. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 241. 



2. Hare's-foot Clover. Trifolium arvense, Linn. (Fig. 242.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 944.) 



A slender, branching, erect annual, seldom reaching a foot in height, 

 and clothed with short soft hairs. Stipules and leaflets narrow. Flowers 

 small, in pedunculate heads, which are at first nearly globular but soon 

 become oblong or cylindrical, 6 to 9 lines long, appearing very soft and 

 feathery owing to the fine hairy teeth of the calyx projecting beyond 

 the very small corolla. 



