TIU FOLIUM. LOTUS. 
;y 
a long attenuated /wint, lesiHets oboviitc emarj'inate minutely 
serrate, seeds 2. — E. B. 1050. St. KJ. H. — St. creeping. FI. pur- 
plish red. Heads large, remarkable when in fruit for their eurious 
calyces. Pod included. — Damp pastures. P. VII. VIII. 
[18. T. resupinatum (L.); heads hemispherical at length glo- 
bose, ])ednneles axillary ecpialling tbe leaves, bracts minute, calyx 
of tbe fruit membranous reticulated woolly, slip, subulate-lan- 
ceolate from an ovate base, leaflets obovatc minutely serrate, seeds 
2. — E. B. S. 2780. (bad) St. KJ. 9. — St. prostrate or ascending. 
FI. small, resupinate. Pod included. — Below Bristol, now lost. 
Poole, Dorset. Belfast, Mr. Thompson. A. VII.] E. I. 
***** FI. stalked, throat of the calyx naked within not inflated, 
cor. persistent, standard deflexed and covering the pod. 
19. T. procumbens (h.) ; heads oval dense with about 40 fl., 
])ed. axillary as long or longer than the leaves, fl. at length re- 
flexed, style much shorter than the pod, stip. ovate acute entire, 
leafl. obovate emarginiite, central petiole longest, seeds elliptical 
radicle scarcely prominent. — E. B. 945. SL 15. 15. — Primary 
stem erect, brandies 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 ellijitical seeds. [T. patens (Sehreb.), T. 
parisiense (DC.); style equal in length to the pod, seeds ellipti- 
cal : radicle forming a marked projection throughout half the 
length of one side, stip. half-cordate usually denticulate ; will 
probably be found in England.] — Dry pastm’es. A. VI. — VIII. 
20. T. minus (Sm.); heads close about \2-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. 125(). T. filiforme Koch. — Diy places. A. VI. — VIII. 
21. T. flliforme (L.) ; fl. few (3 — 5) in lax racemes, peduncles 
axillary, jiedicels as long as the calyx- tube, fl. at length reflexed, 
standard not furrowed “deeply emarginate” scarcely covering 
the j)od. — E. B. 1257- T. micranthum Koch. — Standard much 
narrower in proportion than in T. minus. See Phyt. i. 293. — 
Dry places. A. VI. VII. 
8. 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 vpjjer ones converging, heads 5 — \0-flowered . — 
E. B. 2090. — Glabrous or slightly haiiy. St. ascending. Leaf- 
