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bose, peduncles axillary equalling the leaves, bracts minute, calyx 
of the fruit membranous reticulated woolly, stip. subulate-lan- 
ceolate from an ovate base, leaflets obovate minutely serrate, seeds 
2.— E. B. S. 2789. (bad) St. 16. 9— St. prostrate or ascending. 
Fl. small, resupinate. Pod included. — Meadows at the mouth 
of the Avon below Bristol, but now lost. Poole, Dorset. A. 
VII.] E. 
***** Fl. stalked, throat of the calyx naked within not inflated, 
cor. persistent, standard deflexed and covering the pod. 
19- T. procumbens (L.) ; heads oval dense with about 40 fl., 
peduncles axillary as long or longer than the leaves, fl. at length 
reflexed, style much shorter than the pod, stip. ovate acute entire, 
leaflets obovate emarginate, central petiole longest, seeds ellipti- 
cal radicle scarcely prominent. — E. B. 945. St. 15. 15. — Pri- 
mary stem erect, branches procumbent or ascending. Pod 
pointed at both ends. Peduncles sometimes shorter at others 
longer than the leaves. Fl. yellow. Radicle causing a slight 
irregularity in the otherwise regularly elliptical seeds. T. patens 
(Schreb.), T. parisiense (DC), which has a style equal in length 
to the pod, elliptical seeds with the radicle forming a marked 
projection throughout half the length of one side, and the stip. half- 
cordate and usually denticulate, will probably be found in En- 
gland. — Dry pastures. A. VI. — VIII. 
20. T. minus (Sm.) ; heads close about \1-flowered, peduncles 
axillary, pedicels very short, fl. at length reflexed, standard fur- 
rowed truncate quite covering the pod, style much shorter than 
the pod, stip. ovate, leaflets obcordate intermediate one-stalked. 
— E. B. 1256.— Dry places. A. VI.— VIII. 
21. T. filiforme (L.) ; fl. few (3 — 5) in lax racemes, peduncles 
axillary, pedicels as long as the calyx-tube, fl. at length reflexed, 
standard not furrowed "deeply emarginate" scarcely covering 
the pod. — E. B. 1257. — Standard much narrower in proportion 
than in T. minus. These two plants are very closely allied, but I 
quite agree with Mr. W. Wilson (Phyt. i. 293.) in believing that 
they are distinct species. — Dry places. A. VI. VII. 
9. Lotus Linn. 
1. L. corniculatus (L.) ; claw of the standard obovate trans- 
versely vaulted, calyx-teeth straight in the bud subulate from a 
triangular base as long as their tube but shorter than the corolla : 
points of the 2 upper ones converging, beak springing from the 
middle of the end of the pod, heads 5 — \0-flowered. — E. B. 
2090. — Glabrous or slightly hairy. St. ascending. Leaflets ob- 
ovate. Stip. ovate. Angle between the 2 upper calyx-teeth 
rounded. — (i. villosm (Ser.) ; st. 1. and calyx hairy. — y. crassi- 
folius (Pers.) ; pilose, st. crespitose, leaflets obovate fleshy, stip. 
