DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Trifouum. 857 
Rev. S. Dickenson observes that it is highly aromatic when dried, and that 
it long retains its odour. 
Hare’s-foot Trefoil. (Welsh: Troed yr ysgyfarnog. E.) Sandy 
pastures and corn-fields. A. July—Aug. 
Var. 2. Dwarf. Ray. 14. 2. (Densely silky. Sm. E.) 
Root running deep. Stems trailing, one to three inches long. Fruit-stalks 
very short. Heads numerous, roundish. Blossoms white or pale flesh- 
coloured. Dill, in R. Syn. 
Sea coast. Brackelsham, Sussex. Yarmouth Denes; Lowestoft, plenti¬ 
fully. Mr. Woodward. (Upon sand at New Romney, and near Sand¬ 
wich. Mr. G. E. Smith. E.) 
T. medium. Spikes loose; blossom nearly regular; stipulae awl-shaped, 
converging; stems zigzag, branched. Afzel. 
( Hort. Gram. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 386— E. Bot. 190— FI. Dan. 662. (1273. 
Sm. E.) 
Differs from T. pratense as follows : Leaves longer, more strongly ribbed, 
smooth above. Stipules spear-shaped, green, not awned. Haller. Leaves 
longer and narrower, and blossoms of a deeper colour than those of the 
cultivated Clover. Ray. (Heads of flowers larger. Hook. Vid. Afzelius. 
Linn. Tr. i. E.) 
Zigzag Trefoil. (Marl Clover or Cow-grass, of Sinclair. Welsh: 
Meillionen wyrgam. E.) T. medium. Linn. T. alpestre. Huds. Lightf. 
Relh. T. flexuosum. Jacq. With. Ed. ii. Elevated pastures and sides 
of hedges. At the foot of the Highland mountains in moist and shady 
places. Lightfoot. (Road sides about Libberton, near Edinburgh. Dr. 
Greville. E.) In Skirrith and other mountainous woods and pastures in 
the North, plentifully. Curtis. High pastures, usually among bushes, and 
in woods and ditch banks. Bath Hills, near Bungay. Mr. Woodward; 
Plentifully in Shortwood, near Pucklechurch. Rev. G. Swayne. (In the 
Old Park near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. Oversley Hill, and Bilsley Field, 
Warwickshire. Purton. Upon the boggy tract below the road behind 
Beachboro’, towards Lyminge, Kent. Mr. G. E. Smith. E.) P. July.* 
T. praten'se. Spikes crowded; blossoms unequal: calyx with four of 
the teeth equal; stipulae awned ; stems ascending. Afzel. 
(E. Bot. 1770. E.)— Fuchs. 817 —Trag. 586— J. B. ii. 374— Ger. 1017.1— 
Matth. 835— Riv. Tetr. 11. 1, Trifolium — Blackw. 20— Kniph. 1— Lonic• 
i. 104. 4. 
Flowers upright, when out of blossom hanging down. Leajits of the lower 
leaves roundish, those of the upper oval, slightly downy, dark blackish 
green, with a whitish, angular mark in the centre. Stipules , the upper 
* The true Marl Grass of the shops is the native T. pratense. Marl Grass was first 
cultivated by a farmer Smith, (I believe) of Somersetshire. See Billingsley’s Agricultural 
Report for Somerset.) A circumstance which particularly distinguishes T. medium, is its 
propagating itself by root. Mr. Swayne. (Calculated from its creeping roots to last longer 
in the ground than T.pratense, but it is not yet cultivated. It does not possess the dangerous 
quality of causing cattle to be hove or blown, by eating it when fresh and green. Salisbury. 
—By actual experiment Mr. Sinclair proves the produce and nutritive qualities of this 
species to be decidedly inferior to the Broad-leaved Clover, T. pratense, but adds, that 
“ though unfit for alternate husbandry, for permanent pasture on light soils its value is 
undoubtedly considerable. Hares and rabbits are very fond of this Clover, selecting it from 
other kinds, Hort. Gram. E.) 
