PAPILIONACEiE. 



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inches high ; the stipules narrower ; the 

 leaflets narrow-oblong, spathulate, or 

 nearly linear ; the flower-heads more ob- 

 long, usually two together at the sum- 

 mit of the stem, and sometimes one or 

 two besides, on short, lateral branches. 

 Flowers much like those of the knotted 

 C, of a very pale colour, the calyx 

 rather less hairy. 



In dry pastures and waste places, in 

 southern Europe, and here and there up 

 western France. In Britain only on the 

 Cornwall coast, near the Lizard Point. 

 Fl. summer. 



Kg. 249. 



10. Rough Clover. Trifolium scabrum, Linn. (Fig. 250.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 903.) 



Very near the knotted C, and not 

 always easy to distinguish from it. 

 Usually more procumbent and less 

 hairy, the leaflets not so broad, the 

 flower-heads more in the axils of the 

 leaves, and the stipules of the floral 

 leaves less prominent ; but the chief dis- 

 tinction lies in the calyx, of which the 

 teeth are broader, more rigid, and 

 usually spreading or recurved after 

 flowering, giving the plant a stiffer ap- 

 pearance. Flowers small and whitish. 



In dry pastures and waste places, in 

 central and southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, scarcely extending into northern Germany. In Britain, chiefly 

 near the sea, in England, Ireland, and southern Scotland, but less com- 

 mon than the knotted C. FL all summer. 



Fig. 250. 



11. Upright Clover. Trifolium striatum, Linn. (Fig. 251.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2949.) 



An erect annual, seldom 6 inches high, and perfectly glabrous. Sti- 

 pules very broad and thin. Leaflets narrow. Flower-heads solitaiy, 

 or two or three on each stem, pedunculate above the last leaves, small 



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