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THE PEAFLOWEK TBIBE. 



Fig. 258. 



50 small yellow flowers on very short 

 pedicels ; in fading, the flowers become 

 reflexed, and turn pale-brown, with a 

 broadly obovate standard, distinctly 

 marked with longitudinal furrows, and 

 completely concealing the small, 1- 

 seeded pod. 



In rather dry pastures and meadows, 

 on the borders of fields, etc., throughout 

 Europe and western Asia, except the ex- 

 treme north. Abundant in Britain ge- 

 nerally, but becoming rare in northern 

 Scotland. Fl. the toliole season. 



19. Lesser Clover. Trifolium procumbens, Linn. (Fig. 259.) 

 (T. minus, Eng. Bot. t. 1256.) 



Very near the Hop C, but more slen- 

 der and procumbent ; the flowers smaller, 

 usually 12 to 20 in a head, and of a paler 

 colour ; the standard not so broad, more 

 folded, and only faintly striated. The 

 central leaflet of each leaf is usually at 

 some distance from the others, as in the 

 Hop C, excepting sometimes in the 

 lower leaves. Pedicels of the flowers 

 much shorter than the tube of the calyx. 

 As common as the Hop C. over the 

 greater part of Europe, but does not 

 appear to extend so far to the east or to 

 the north. In Britain, also as abundant 

 as the Hop C, excepting, perhaps, in the 

 north. Fl. the whole season. Starved specimens of this species are 

 much like the more luxuriant ones of the slender C, and chiefly dis- 

 tinguished by the shortness of the pedicels. 



Fig. 259. 



20. Slender Clover. Trifolium filiforme, Linn. (Fig. 260.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1257.) 



Still more slender than the lesser C. ; the stems decumbent, ascend- 

 ing, or erect, seldom G inches long. Leaflets usually narrower than 



