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! ing four* or five white flowers, with a very long 
tube coming out of a fliriated empalement, encom- 
l' pafTed with a red girdle, and divided into five feg- 
! ments : .When the flowers are fallen, the empalements 
jj are refledled towards die pedicle, and hide their heads 
1 in the ground : Out of the end of the pedicle, in 
ij the middle of the empalement, emerge many flat 
j rays, broad at the bottoms, and narrow towards the 
; tops ; , the tops themfeives being radiated with five 
‘ longifh fpines, expanded in the form of a fbar : Thefe 
fays do not always break out at the fame time, but 
fuccefllvely, and are reflected towards the pedicle, 
fo that they compofe a kind of prickly head : In each 
empalement is one feed, in a cheuiut-colour’d bag. 
3. Trifolium pratenfe hirfutum majus^ flore albo^ 
fulphureo^ R. 328. The Great white, or yellowifli 
Meadow Trefoil. The figure of the fpike refembles 
that of the Common Rurple Meadow Trefoil : The 
flowers are yellowifh : I'he leaves are entire, and 
thofe on the lower are lefs than thofe on the upper 
part of the ftaikj by which it may be diftinguilhed ' 
from the reft. 
*4. Trfolium pratenfe pur pur eim,^ R.328, C. 327. 
pratenfe purpureum vulgar e^ R. 1 1 1 o. prat. G. i o 1 7. 
Common Purple Treioil, or Honey -fuckle Trefoil. 
Common in meadows and paftures. The lower 
leaves are oval, and grow, by threes, on long hairy 
pedicles ♦, they are of a deeper green on the upper, 
than the under-fide, and each is ftained with a whitifli ' 
Ipot : The ftalks grow a foot or more high, are fet 
with a few ftiorter leaves, and have two fmall ones 
at the bottom of a roundifn head, which conflfts of 
! purple flowers, fet each in a hairy five-pointed em- 
palement. 
j 5 . Trifolium pratenfe purpureum minus .,f iliis cordatis^ 
R.328. The Lefler Purple Meadow Trefoil, with 
leaves fliaped like a heart. It is a lefs plant than the 
laft : T he leaves are in the figure of a heart, and 
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