DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Trifolium. 859 
Broad-leaved Clover. Meadows and pastures.* * 
Var. 4. Flowers cream-coloured: in other respects exactly resembling 
T. pratense. 
A single specimen, found by the Rev. Mr. Swayne,. in a field belonging to 
Tracy Park, near Bath. (Two solitary plants observed in a field of pur¬ 
ple, near Uxbridge, by Mr. W. Christy. E.) 
This plant has not the general hairiness, the long horns of the stipulse, or the 
very long tooth of the calyx, so striking in T. ochroleucum. 
(Var. 5. T. pratense perenne. Perennial Red Clover of Sinclair. 
Hort. Gram. 
Root slightly creeping, extremely fibrous. Of a darker green than the com¬ 
mon Broad-leaved Clover, with more hairs on the stem and leaves , and 
less upright. The sheaths are terminated with narrower and longer 
points, which are set. with longer hairs. Flower-stalks longer and more 
slender, with a disposition to grow flexuose. Heads of flowers less 
crowded, though equally large. When young the flower-head is ex¬ 
tremely pubescent. 
In the fertile grazing lands between Wainfleet and Skegness, in Lincoln¬ 
shire, this true Perennial Red Clover abounds.t 
T. ochroleu'cum. Spikes villous, terminal: stem upright, pubescent: 
lower leafits inversely heart-shaped: lower tooth of the calyx 
as long as the tube of the blossom. 
Dicks. H. S.—Curt. —( E. Bot. 1224. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 40. 
Stem more hairy, and stipulce sheathing to a greater extent, and running out 
into longer awns than in T. pratense. Gouan. Leaves alternate ; leajits 
sessile, the lower ones heart-shaped and egg-shaped in the same plant. 
Woodw. These circumstances, together with the great length of the 
lower tooth of the calyx, sufficiently distinguish it from the yellow-flow¬ 
ered var. of T. pratense. ( Bloss. sulphur coloured, in roundish, dense, 
heads. Stems twelve to eighteen inches high. E.) 
Ray’s Trifolium pratense hirsutum majus, flare albo-sulphureo, Syn. 328, 
belongs to this species, as Hudson determined, and not to the variety 
above-mentioned. 
■Sulphur-coloured Trefoil. ( T . squarrosum , as well as ochroleucum. 
Linn. fid. Sm. E.) Dry meadows, pastures, and thickets, in a chalky 
soil in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Dupper’s 
Hill, Croydon, and near Stamford. Bath Hills, near Bungay. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. (Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. Weighed. Clapham, Bedford¬ 
shire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. E.) B. June—July.]; 
* Much cultivated. It is either grazed, or made into hay. Swine, goats, horses, and 
cows are fond of it. Linn. It seldom remains in the ground more than two years. Mr. 
Woodward. 
*j* (It should be combined with other grasses, and is either suitable to the alternate 
husbandry, (for which T. medium, is inadmissible on account of its creeping roots), or for 
permanent pasture, for which it is peculiarly adapted. Such are its advantages for clayey 
and peaty soils: in dry light land T. medium is preferable. Hort'. Gram. E.) 
+ (Smith pronounces the herbage to be very “ sparing and not lasting ; ” and suspects 
the plant may prove merely annual. Jpion assimile is found upon it. E.) 
