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Trefoil Purple Meadow, Small. 
arc in form fiape like the Common Meadow 
Trefoil, but of a Purple color. 
IX. The lixth, or fmall white Trefoil. - Its 
Root is JmaU and thready and rifes up with 
many Stalks , fpread out into feveral Branches 
Trefoil White Meadow, Small. 
and Leaves , bearing fmall Spikes or Heads of 
Flowers at their tops , cf a white color : Oj the 
Leaves , thofe below are rounder , or ahnoft quite 
round -, thofe above are longer and narrower , but 
all of them J mailer than the firft or fccond common 
Kinds. They grow pretty clofe together , and are 
many , the Plant being full oj Branches , three for 
the mojl part growing together , and fimetimes jour 
or more , as Nature is pleafed to produce them. 
X. The feventh, or Heart-Trefoil. Its Root is 
fmall . , fender , fibrous or thready , and Annual ■, 
icfr/W; Jends forth very fender and weak Stalks , 
fpread out into many branches , and full cf Joints , 
repleat with round pointed green ijh Trefoil Leaves, 
upon long Footfalks broad at their 
ends , and. dented in, in the middle of the end, ma- 
king the Leaf to be in jorm of a Heart, as it ujually 
Trefoil Heart. 
/rotor ro'rf) aM in ear Meadows, each Leaf having a 
kind of reidijh , or fome other like colored Spot m 
its middle. The flowers grow at the end of a Stalk 
coming from the Joints, which are fmall and yel- 
lowifh , and after turn into prickly turning Heads 
not much unlike to fmall Medica’s, or Clover-' 
Grafs. 
XI. The eighth, or common fmall Haresfoot- 
Trefbil. !ts Root is fender and very fibrous a 
fmall but well known Plant , growing greater and 
higher in fome places than it does in others , with 
whitijh Woolly fmall Trefoil Leaves, on Jhort foot- 
Jialks. It Jpreads it Jelf out into many Branches 
which have Heads at their tops, fmall and fotne- 
uihat long with the roundnefs , compcfcd as it were 
all of a hairy hoary downi/wfs, ahqfe f lowers are 
in fome 0) a white , in others of a b/ufii color. J r 
is an Annual Plant as the Hareloots are, perifhing 
every Lear, whereas the other Trefoils do not fo. & 
XII. Gerard deferibes this Trefoil thus. Its 
Root is fmall and bard ; it has a rough round and 
hairy 
