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ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
out of twenty. Furthermore, in the course of time a body of 
men would be raised up calculated to improve the position 
of our noble and beloved profession in the eyes of the world. 
Scientific inquiries into veterinary pathology would not be 
banded over to the human pathologist, and the animal 
creation would be the first to benefit most largely by the 
system. 
If the general body of the profession were in harmony 
with the teaching of the schools, this matter would wear a 
different aspect; but that such harmony does not exist is 
proved by remarks often made in communications to the 
journals as to what is and what is not taught in the schools, 
and still more forcibly by the fact that the uses of such 
adjuvants to practice as the subcutaneous injection of drugs, 
the administration of chloroform, the employment of the 
ecraseur, &c., are frequently discussed at association meet¬ 
ings as if they were matters new and rare, instead of grow¬ 
ing grey with the hoar of age. 
I might say much more on this subject, but I think I 
have said sufficient to indicate the views I hold upon it, and 
as I have freely given so I hope I shall receive. 
ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. 
[Continued from p. 775.) 
The remaining species of clovers now to be considered 
are those with yellow flowers, consisting of the following 
[flowers yellow '): 
1. Trifolium filiforme . . Lesser Yellow Clover. Heads, 
of from three to five lax 
flowers, small. 
2. „ minus . . Medium Yellow Clover. Heads 
compact, of many flowers. 
3. „ procumbens . Hop Clover. Heads of flowers 
persistent and compact, simu¬ 
lating the strobiles of hops on 
a small scale. 
1. The lesser yellow clover is remarkable for its small¬ 
ness of size and complete prostrate habit. It is at once dis¬ 
tinguished from its few lax flowers. It is a plant which may 
