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25. legfminosjs. 
Tribe III. Trifolieat. 
9. Trifolitjm L. 
Clover, Trefoil. Port. Trevo. 
Sect. I. Lagopoda L. ( Lcigopus , Phleastrum, Eutriphyllum Ser. 
inPC.) ; throat of cal. in fr. not inflated, hairy, often 
closed with a pair of lip-like prominences or a raised 
hairy ring within. — Herbage hairy. FI. without bract- 
lets. Pod 1-2-seeded. 
* Lagopus Ser. in DC. FI. in elongated spikes or rac. 
1. T. ANGUSTIFOLIUM L. 
Silky-villose hoary; st. erect branched only at the base; 
lfts. narrow linear-lanceolate acuminate ciliate* ; spikes hairy 
narrow-pyramidal or oblong-conical pointed stalked or leafless 
at the base solitary terminal harsh and rigid after jl. ; cal. 
10-ribbed glandular and villose-hairy, teeth setaceous or subu- 
late scarcely longer than the cor., strongly nerved rigid subspi- 
nescent spreading and elongated after Jl., the lowest longer than 
the 4 others. — Desf. ii. 198 ; Brot. ii. 106 ; Buch ! 197. no. 406 ; 
FI. Gr. t. 749; DC. ii. 189; Spr. iii. 212; WB. ! ii. 69; Seub. 
FI. Azor. 49. no. 370; Koch 187. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, cc. 
PS. reg. 2, 3, cc. ND. GD. reg. 2, ccc. Mad. to the W. 
and E. of Funchal near the sea everywhere ; about Machico, 
the Piedade on P ta S. Louren^o, &c. ; PS. along the N. coast 
at and beyond Camacha by roadsides in grassy spots, &c. 
March-May. — The largest except T. pratense L. of the Mad. 
Trefoils. St. several from the crown of the root, 6-12 in. high, 
erect straight simple. Whole pi. greyish, clothed with long 
white silky hairs. Lfts. £-l£ in. long, L-2 lines broad, much 
longer than the leafstalk. Stip. long and narrow acuminate or 
taper-pointed. Heads at first ovate, then elongate pyramidal 
acuminate, 1-3 in. long; fl. not large but rather deep rose-col. 
Throat of cal. closed after Jl. by 2 opposite internal lip-like pro- 
minences, the teeth spreading, rather hard and pungent, copi- 
ously clothed like the 10-ribbed tube with long white silky 
hairs. Pods 1 -seeded ; seed ovoid, slightly compressed smooth 
bright y. ; radicle not prominent. 
2. T. ARVEN8E L. Hare’s-foot Trefoil. 
Softly hairy hoary-grey; st. erect mostly branched from the 
base and bushy; lfts. linear-oblong or -obovate, retuse and 
mucronulato or slightly toothed at top ; spikes oval then oblong 
* Willi a superabundance of marked specific differences it does not 
soom worth while to overload the diagnoses of Trifolium with the less 
discriminative characters of the stipules. 
