TRIFOLIUM. 
147 
elegantly reticulated, resembling short ovate inverted wine- 
flasks split down in front. Pod very short round 2-seeded. 
EBS. t. 2789 wrongly represents the fl. in the heads with the 
standard (as usual) superior instead of inferior or resupinate. 
Otherwise the figures are good and characteristic, and in the 
2 magnified views of the fl. at the bottom of the plate, the rela- 
tive position of the sep. and standard (not of the wings and 
keel) is perfectly correct. 
14. T. TOTVVENTOSUM L. 
Smooth light gr. ; st. prostrate or procumbent ; lfts. obovate 
or obovate-wedgeshaped sharply and finely serrulate ; ped. axil- 
lary short distinctly shorter than the l., often none ; heads in fl. 
small hemispherical with the involucre or bracelets very minute or 
obsolete ; jl. sessile twice as long as cal. with obsolete or scarcely 
any bractlets ; heads in fr. compactly globose densely cottony or vel- 
vety, upper half of cal. inflated globose or oval bullate scarious 
reticulated closely velvety, the two upper short divergent and de- 
flexed setaceous teeth minute inconspicuous and like the remains 
of the cor. concealed in the thick short cottony tomentum or inflated 
cal. — Desf. ii. 200 ; Brot. ii. 110 ; Spr. iii. 218 ; 1)C. ii. 203 ; Moris 
Sard. i. 495. t. 64; Koch 190; WB. ii. 77. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 
1, -§. PS. reg. 2, 4, Mad. about Funchal near the sea to the 
W. by roadsides, in paved walks, and waste ground in dry sunny 
places. PS. roadside at Camacha and summits of Pico do 
Castello, P. de Juliana, and P. do Cabrito. March-May. — Root 
sometimes strong but distinctly only ann. fibrous beset with 
granular tubercles. Habit like T. glomeratum L. Foliage pale 
gr. altogether smooth. St. prostrate but not creeping, 2-4 in. 
long, rarely amongst herbage 5 or 6 in., unbranched or nearly 
so, except at their base. Stip. ovate or lanceolate acuminate. 
Ped. about half the length of petioles, often wanting, always 
distinctly shorter than the 1. Fl. nearly white with the faintest 
possible blush of pink or rose, as long again as the cal. and its 
teeth together. Involucre reduced as in T. resupinatum L. to a 
ring of minute short truncate scales. Heads after fl. enlarged 
to the diam. of 4-5 lines, perfectly and closely or compactly 
spherical, white tinged with pale gr. and reddish on one side 
like a peach in miniature, the inflated cal. on one side the head 
being reticulated with red veins, otherwise nearly white from 
the dense velvety tomentum. Remains of cor. like the cal.- 
teeth not prominent or indeed, except partially or here and 
there, visible. Pod enclosed 1-seeded. Seed subglobose pale 
greenish-y. 
Differs from T. resupinatum L. in the nearly or quite sessile 
