862 DIADELPHIA. BECANDRIA. Tbifolium. 
Cart. 307 ; T. procumbens — (E.Bot. 1256. E.)— Ray. 14. 3, at p. 332— H. 
Ox. ii. 13. 1 and 2. b 3 the lowermost of the 2 figures — Lob. Obs. 468. 1, and 
Ic. ii. 29. 2—Ger. Em. 1186. 6—Park. 1111. 5. 
Stems numerous, six to twelve inches long, much branched. Stipulae in 
pairs, obtusely oval-spear-shaped. Leaf-stalks short. Leajits heart- 
wedge or egg-shaped, very entire towards the base, serrated upwards, 
the odd one on a short leaf-stalk, the side one nearly sessile, smooth. 
Fruit-stalks from the bosom of the leaves, longer than the leaf-stalks, 
slightly downy. Pedicles very short. Floral-leaves none. Flowers after 
flowering bent back, hanging loosely and separate. Woodw. Stem a 
little hairy. Leajits inversely heart-shaped, mid-rib a little hairy under¬ 
neath, with about seven semi-transparent lateral ribs. Flowers yellow ; 
.loosely tiled. This is the most common sort of Hop Trefoil , and may be 
found in almost every dry, sandy, or gravelly pasture, especially where 
the turf is fine, but varying greatly in size according to the richness or 
poverty of the soil, and flowering from May to August. On considering 
that the above described plants frequently grow intermixed, are very 
similar in general habit, and subject to considerable variation in size, we 
hesitate to admit the latter as a distinct species. On this point the acute 
Greville observes, “ 1 cannot find sufficient difference between T. fli- 
forme and minus , to make them even varieties. The middle leafit is 
both sessile and petiolate on the same specimen in both plants, and is so 
represented in E. Bot. 1257 as T.flforme. The teeth of the calyx, said 
by Sir J. E. Smith to be glabrous in the same plant, are figured in E. Bot. 
slightly hairy in both. The peduncles are pubescent in each ; as to the 
latter being somewhat flexuose or straight, and the heads few or many- 
flowered, no importance can surely be placed on such characters/' FI. 
Edin. p. 162. E.) 
T. suffoca'tum. Without stem or stalk: flowers nearly sessile on the 
root: (seed-vessel inhumed, two-seeded. E.) 
( E. Bot. 1049. E.)— Jacq. Hort. 60. 
Flowers in clusters, sessile, axillary, buried in the earth. Calyx oblong, 
compressed, smooth, five-cleft, segment reflexed. Blossom within the 
tube of the calyx, colourless, (pale pink, according to Sm. transient. E.) 
Leaves ternate, inversely egg-shaped, smooth, somewhat toothed. Linn. 
Every part of the plant, except the leaves, is buried in the sand, (so that 
even its seeds are actually perfected subterraneously, and without light: 
E.) but on putting down a knife or a stick the whole plant may be raised, 
and then its flowers and fruit come into view. The clusters in some of 
the older plants are as large as a small nut. Woodw. 
(Suffocated Trefoil. Welsh: Meillionenfygiedig. E.) Discovered in 
England by Mr. Lilly Wigg, on the driest sandy part of Yarmouth 
Denes, near the sea; (and also found at Lowestoft, Suffolk, and other 
places on the eastern coast by Mr. Woodward. Plentiful on the Den at 
Teignmouth. Rev. Dr. Beeke, in Bot. Guide. Near the boat-house, 
Sandgate; the warren, New Romney; and the common, at Lydd. Mr. 
G. E. Smith. On Beaumaris Green. Welsh Bot. E.) A. June—Sept. 
LOTUS.* Calyx tubular: ivings converging longitudinally 
upwards : legume straight, (cylindrical, spongy within. 
E.) 
* (The origin of this name seems involved in mystery. According to Herodotus it is of 
Egyptian extraction, and may probably be derived from to desire; as though valuable 
