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doubtedly 'v ery near T. squarrosum L. wliic-li I have gathered 
in Grand Canary ; hut it is perfectly distinct. 
Hf6. T. PRATENSE L. Common Clover. 
More or less pubescent scarcely hairy, dull gr. ; st. erect 
branched succulent ; lfts. large entire oval or oblong-oval, the 
upper elliptic-lanceolate ; heads large globose or ovate obtuse 
densely jld. sessile mostly bracteated at the base by a pair of floral 
leaves ; cal. 10-nerved hairy, teeth soft setaceous ciliate unequal , 
the lowest one much longer than the rest, but not half the length 
of the tubular monopetalous cor. ; all nearly erect in fr. — Desf. ii. 
194; Brot. ii. 105; H. FI. Sc. i. 218; EB. t. 1770 ; Sm. E. 
FI. iii. 302; DC. ii. 195 (var. a); Koch 184; Bab. 75. — Herb, 
per. Mad. reg. 1, semicult., rrr. Grass-plots at the Quinta do 
Valle, introd. originally from England with grass-seeds many 
years ago, and now perfectly established, yet not apparently 
self-propagating or spreading. June. — St. 10 to 18 in. high, 
erect or spreading. Stip. broad ovate nerved with an abrupt 
subulate or awn-like point. Heads large subelongate or spicate 
bracteated bv the large dilated stip. of a pair of 1. at their base, 
mostly solitary and sessile rarely geminate or stalked. Throat 
of cal. with a raised hairy ring inside. FI. conspicuous fra- 
grant bright rose-purple of varying intensity, quite overtopping 
and hiding the cal. -teeth which remain unchanged after fi. soft 
or flexible. 
Occasionally cultivated, like common Lucerne {Medico go sa- 
liva L.), about English houses as an artificial grass or fodder for 
cattle. 
7. T. STRIATUM L. 
Hairy-pubescent hoary ; st. somewhat erect or spreading and 
procumbent ; lfts. obovate or obov ate- oblong minutely denti- 
culate at top ; heads ovate or oval, oblong in fr., dense solitary 
sessile terminal and lateral, sheathed or bracteated at the base by 
the broad dilated stip. of the uppermost l., in fr. botryoidal ; cal.- 
tube 10-ribbed ventricose very hairy, teeth nearly smooth subulate 
awn-like or setaceous straight unequal about as long as the cor. ; 
tube in fr. oval-globose or urceolate, teeth slightly rigid. — Brot. ii. 
107; If. FI. Sc. i. 219; EB. t. 1843; Sm. E. FI. in. 307 ; Bucli! 
198. no. 409; DC. ii. 192 ; Spr. iii. 21(5 ; WB. ! 73 ; Koch 188 ; 
Bab. 70, 77. — Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, ccc. PS. reg. 4, r. Has 
not occurred in any of the Desertas ! Ilocky sunny places in Mad. 
everywhere below 1500 ft. In PS. observed only at the S. base 
of the rocky summit of Pico do Facho. March-May. — Whole pi. 
softly downy and hairy, greyish. St. mostly more or less erect, 
3-9 in. long, at least ultimately hard and stiffish. Lower lfts. 
short and broad, upper narrower and lanceolato sometimes acute, 
