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In cornfields, dry pastures, on sandy 

 banks, etc., throughout Europe and 

 western Asia, except the extreme north. 

 Abundant in Britain, but more in the 

 south than in the north. Fl. summer 

 and autumn. 



Fig. 242. 



3. Starry Clover. Trifolium stellatum, Linn. (Fig. 243.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1545.) 



A low but rather coarse annual, co- 

 vered with soft hairs, and seldom above 

 6 inches high. Leaves broadly obovate 

 or obcordate. Elower-heads globular, 

 softly hairy, on rather long peduncles 

 above the last leaves. Calyx remarkable 

 for the long subulate-lanceolate teeth, 

 spreading like a star after flowering, 

 whilst the mouth is closed over the pod 

 by a tuft of hairs. Corolla shorter than 

 the calyx-teeth, of a pale cream-colour. 



In dry pastures and waste places, in 

 southern Europe, common round the 

 Mediterranean, reappearing in south- 

 western France, and in Britain, on the 

 coast of Sussex near Shoreham, and per- 

 haps in a few other localities, introduced 

 with ballast. Fl. early summer, and 

 sometimes again in autumn. 



Fig. 243. 



