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retusis, Madera 1776 Downe (marked also T. procumbens ) BH. ! 
T. procumbens Buck! 198. no. 411. 
A 2nd more erect form, with ped. shorter than the 1. (var. 8 
Hook. Br. FI. 1. <?.), occurs only occasionally and at higher alti- 
tudes on rocky, moist or shady banks. 
A 3rd cognizable but equally transient or trivial local form 
of the pi. is that dwarf state (S nanum Ser. in DC. ?) which 
grows in short turf whether in maritime or mountain open 
sunny pastures, with short st. 2 or 3 in. long and numerous 
crowded heads of fi. Two sheets of such ex. in Herb. Linn., 
marked simply with the numerals 38 and 39, have been pinned 
by their illustrious owner to his authentic “ 38 procumbens .” 
A third sheet, without any mark or number, containing 3 spec, 
of the very same form, has however been similarly affixed by 
him to his very different authentic u agrarium 36 ; ” to which 
he has also attached another sheet without mark or number of 
his own, but which has been, I think, rightly named by Sir J . 
E. Smith in pencil u agrarium FI. An.” (i. e. Iluds. FI. Angl.) 
11 procumbens Lin.” 
I have looked in vain in Mad. for the true T. agrarium L. ! 
(T. aureum Poll.), which, with the apparently still more nearly 
allied T. patens Schreb. (T. parisiense DC.), said to be distin- 
guished from T. procumbens L. by the denticled and cordate 
stip. auricled at the base, by the longer style nearly as long as 
the pod, and prominent radicle of the seed, might have been 
expected to occur. 
19. T. minus Belli. 
St. stip. and foliage as in T. procumbens L. but smaller and 
more slender , petioles very short ; lfts. obcordate or obcuneate 
retuse, the middle one distinctly stalked; heads small sub - 
umbellate , about 12 -/*!., globose or hemispherical in fr., very ob- 
tuse or truncate; ped. axillary distinctly longer than the 1., 
slender but straight and erect; ff. somewhat lax distinct, all 
shortly stalked, tubular, closely deflexed and imbricate in fr. ; 
pedic. shorter than the cal. -tube ; style not j the length of the 
pod\ standard faintly furrowed or striate, oblong-spathidate 
truncate entire heeled at the bach, conduplicate, not curling in 
downwards but folded together laterally over the pod. — Belli. FI. 
Cantab, ed. 2 ; CI>. t. 1250 ; II. FI. Sc. i. 220 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 310; 
Bab. 79. T. agrarium Buch ! 198. no. 1 10 (not Linn.). T.jUi- 
forme DC. ii. 206 (cxcl. var. 8) ; AYB. ! ii. 79 (excl. svn.) ; Koch 
195 (not I jinn.). T.fdi forme var. a major 1 look. FI. Brit. (ed. 5) 
