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THE PEAFLOWER TRIBE. 



spreading. Corolla pale-pink, ratlier 

 longer than the calyx. 



In salt-marshes and rich meadows near 

 the sea, in southern and western Europe, 

 rarely extending along great rivers. In 

 Britain, confined to southern England 

 and Ireland. Fl. summer, ratlier early. 



Fig. 247. 



8. Knotted Clover. Trifolium striatum, Linn. (Fig. 248.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1843.) 



A small, tufted, more or less spread- 

 ing annual, covered with short, soft 

 hairs. Stipules ovate, ending in a fine 

 point. Leaflets obovate. Flower-heads 

 small, ovoid or globular, chiefly terminal; 

 and closely sessile within the last leaves, 

 of which the stipules are very broad 

 and thin, with occasionally one or two 

 heads sessile in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Calyx softly hairy, with short 

 but subulate teeth, which remain erect 

 after flowering. Corolla very small and 

 pale -red. 

 In dry pastures, on banks and waste places, in central and southern 



Europe to the Caucasus, extending northward into southern Sweden. 



Diffused over nearly the whole of England, Ireland, and southern 



Scotland. Fl. all summer, 



Fig. 248. 



9. Boccone's Clover. Trifolium Bocconi, Savi. (Fig. 249.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2868.) 

 Yery near the knotted C, but the stems are erect or nearly so, 2 to 6 



