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Trifolium ornithopodioides. Birds foot Trefoil. 
TRIFOLIUM Lintitei Gen. PL Diadelphia Decandria. 
Flores fubcapitati. Legumen vix calyce longius, non dehifcens, deciduum. 
Rali Syn. Gen. 23. Herbae flore papilionaceo seu leguminosaj. 
TRIFOLIUM ornithopodioides leguminibus nudis oftofpermis fubternis, calycibus duplo longioribus* 
caulibus declinatis. Linnai Syjl. Vegetab. p. 571. Sp. Pl. 1078. 
MEDIC AGO leguminibus ternatis, eredis, recurvis, defeendentibus, pedunculo communi. Hort . Cliff. 3*- 6. 
TRIFOLIUM filiquofum loto affine filiquis ornithopodii. Pluk. phy t. t. 68 .fig. 1. 
FAENUMGRA£CUM humile repens, ornithopodii liliquis brevibus eredis. Rail Syn. p. 33 r, Fenu- 
greek with Birds-foot Trefoil Pods, tab. 14. fig. r. Hudfon FI. Angl. p. 282. 
Oeder FI. Dan. icon. 368. 
Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 403. 
RADIX fimplex, albida, fibrofa, tuberculis obfita. 
CAULES plures, procumbentes, in humidiore aut pin- 
guiore folo palmares aut fefquipalmares alias 
vix quandrantales, craffiufculi, et fubrigidi. 
FOLIA perexigua, terna, obeordata, profunde denti- 
culata et veluti erofa, kevia, venis redis non 
ramofis, fig. 7. 
STIPULAE ad bafin foliorum binae, magnae, venofae, 
acuminatae. 
FLORES axillares, carnei, pedunculis breviffimis in- 
fidentes, terni, bini aut etiam folitarii. 
CALYX : Perianthium tubuloffim, quinquedenta- 
tum, perfiftens, lawe, ftriatum, dentibus a- 
cuminatis, nudis, duobus fuperioribus longi- 
oribus, fg. 1. 
COROLLA papilionacea : Vexillum reflexum : Alje 
divergentes, fig. 2. 
PISTILLUM : Germen oblongum, villofum, fig. 3. 
PERICARPIUM : Legumen magnum, calyce duplo 
longius, apice mucronata incurva, in duas val- 
vulas aegre dehifcens, fig. 4, 5. 
SEMINA fex ad decem, difformia, pallida, maculata 
fg- 6 . 
| ROOT Ample, whitiffi, fibrous, and befet with little 
I knobs or tubercles. 
¥ 
I STALKS numerous and procumbent, in a moifl: or 
% rich foil from four to fix inches in length, 
t but molt commonly from two to three, thick- 
: iffi for the fize of the plant, and fome what rigid. 
, LEAVES very fmall, growing by threes, inverfely 
heart-Ihaped, deeply notched, fo as to appear 
;; as if gnawed, fmooth, the veins ftraight, and 
j not branched, fig. 7. 
; STIPULAE at the bafe of the leaves two, large, veiny, 
and pointed. 
FLOWERS axillary, pale red, fitting on exceedingly 
ffiort foot-ftalks, growing three or two toge- 
ther, fometimes fingly. 
CALYX: a Perianthium which is tubular, with 
five teeth, permanent, fmooth, ftriated, the 
teeth acuminated, naked, the two uppermofi: 
;; longeft, fig. 1. 
COROLLA papilionaceous; the Standard turning 
back ; and the Wings feparating, fig. 2. ° 
, PISTILLUM : Germen oblong and villous, fig. 3. 
; SEED-VESSEL, a large Legumen, twice the length 
of the Calyx, the tip ending in a point and 
; bending downward, with difficulty fplitting 
; ; into two valves, fig. 4, 3. 
; SEEDS from fix to ten, irregular, pale and fpotted 
t fig • 6 . 
“ mmQn “ tUS C ° Untry ‘ han ” SeneraUy ima E i,Kd ’ a " d h- Probably 
foa > whkh th = 
“S Bl “ C,l ‘ a,h ■ Mr - H ™“ mentions its grow- 
f tle - at “ d n^ nCe - but is to be -Jifcoverod 
the other fpecies. Its 'leaves are fmooth and much notch”!?* 1, thefe 1S , 110 difficulty 11 } difhnguifhmg it from 
its feed-veflels remarkably large and growing mofi rnmmo f naWe< * edges ; its flowers are pale red ; 
fomewhat refemble a bird’s claw’ but no? T 1 TrL T 7 ° r n thre f to g^er, in which ftate they 
feed-veflels are fometimes fcgll’ ^ “ l ° ‘ degree as the °r Birds-foot does ; the 
Cultivated in a garden, it grows to a much larger plant than is reprefented on the plate. 
