Trifolium.'] xxvi. leguminosje: TRIFOI.IE.E. 
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inches long, decumbent, hairy, with large, ovate, membranaceous sfipu/es. 
Flowers long and very slender, almost white. Peduncles at length 
elongated ; so that the heads of flowers reach the ground : the young 
fruit then becomes deflexed, and from the top of the peduncle there 
arise many thick short fibres with 5 palmated teeth at their extremity, 
which soon become recurved over the fruit and serve to bury it in 
the soil. From the number of teeth terminating each of the above- 
mentioned fibres, as well as from their comparative length and thick- 
ness, it is natural to conclude, with De Candolle, that the latter are 
abortive calyces. Petals partially caducous. Legumes large, ovate- 
globose. 
*** Flowers sessile. Calyx with the upper lip remarkably inflated after 
flowering and arched above. Standard deciduous. 
16. T. fragiferum L. (Strawberry -headed T.) ; heads with 
a multifid involucre as long as the calyx globose upon long 
axillary stalks, calyx after flowering inflated membranace- 
ous reticulated downy with the two upper teeth bent down, 
stem creeping, leaflets obcordate serrated. E. B. t. 1050. 
Meadows and pastures, fl. 7,8. — Flowers very small, purplish- 
red. The heads of flowers, nearly globose at first but completely 
so in fruit, are then an inch in diameter, and often more or less 
coloured, so as not unaptly to represent a strawberry. Mouth of the 
calyx, as in the following species, very oblique when inclosing the 
fruit, from the one half remaining unaltered while the other becomes 
enlarged and inflated. 
,17. T. * resupinatum L. ( reversed T .) ; heads with a minute 
involucre at the base hemispherical at length globose on stalks 
at first only about as long as the petiole, corollas resupinate, 
calyx after flowering membranaceous reticulated inflated hairy 
acute, two of the teeth longer patent, leaflets obovate, stem 
prostrate. E. B. S. t. 2789. 
• Meadows near Bristol ; near the Poole ballast-quay at Ham, 
Dorset ; Cheshire, near New Brighton ; Lancashire, near Everton, 
O- 7. 
**** Flowers usually pedicellate ( bright yellow'). Standard persistent, 
deflexed, dry, enveloping the fruit. 
18. T. agrarium L. ( Hop T.) ; heads broadly oval many- 
flowered dense, pedicels much shorter than the calyx, standard 
at length deflexed furrowed, leaves stalked, leaflets obcordate, 
central one on a longer stalk. T. procumbens E. B. t. 945 ; 
Brit. FI. (former editions). 
Dry pastures and borders of fields, frequent. ©. 6 — 8. — Frimary 
or central stem erect ; lateral ones or branches ascending or procum- 
bent, sometimes wanting. This is well distinguished from the follow- 
ing by its large, dense, hop-like heads of flowers, and the standard 
which is striate when old. 
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