TRIFOLIUM Linn. Gen. PI. D ia d l e ph ia D e c a n d r ia .
Flores fubcapitati. Legumen vix calyce longius, non dehifceos, deciduum.
Raii Syn. Gen. 23. H erbæ f lo r e p a p il io n a c e o seu leg um ino sæ .
TRIFOLIUM agrarium fpicis ovalibus imbricatis : vexillis deflexis perfiflentibus, calycibus nudis, caule
eredo. Linn. Syfi. Veg.p. 574. Sp. PL 1087. F l. Suède. 671.
TRIFOLIUM fpicis ovatis denfiffimis, flrepentibus, caulibus diffufis. Haller Hiß. n. 363.
TRIFOLIUM agrarium. Scopoli Fl. Corn. n. g31.
TRIFOLIUM pratenfe luteum capitulo Lupuli Vel agrarium. Bauh. Pin.
TRIFOLIUM luteum minimum. Ger. emac. 1186. Raii Syn. jô. 330. Hop-Trefoil.
Oeder. F l. D. t. 558.
Hudfon Fl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 328.
Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 409.
❖ ROOT annual.
ICAULIS palmaris aut dodrantalis, .plerumque diffii- $ STALK from fix to nine inches in length, generally
fus,, teres, villofus, ramofus, fruticulofus, $ fpreading, round, villous, branched, a little
fæpe rubens
ISTIPULÆ binæ, ovato-acuminatæ, flriatæ.
hard or fhrubby, often of a reddifh colour.
I STIPULE growing in pairs, oval, pointed, and
y flriated. |
FOLIA oblongo-cordata, plerumque nuda, nervofa, * LEAVES o f an oblong heart-fhape, generally fmooth,
nervis plurimis, redis, acute ferrata. Y finely rib’d, the ribs flraight, fharply fawed
a about the margin.
PETIOLI teretes, foliis ipfis paulo breviores. v LEAF-STALKS round, and fomewhat fhorter than
| the leaves themfelves.
PEDUNCULI eredi, nudi, petiolis multolongiores. ❖ FLOWER-STALKS upright, naked, much longer
X than the leaf-ftalks.
FLORES quadraginta circiter, imbricatim denfiffime ❖ FLOWERS about forty, Handing on very fhort foot-
* • glomerati, vix manifefte pedicellati, capituli t ftalks, which are fcarce perceptible, laying
majufeuli, fubrotundi, primum lutei, demum ❖ very clofe one over the other, and forming
fufei. | largifh heads of a roundilh fhape, which at
firft are yellow, and afterwards brown.
CALYX: P er ian th ium minimum, membranaceum, | C A L YX : a P e r ian th ium very minute, membra-
flavefeens, a corolla asgre diftinguendum, aut X nous, yellowilh, with difficulty diftinguiffied
feparandum, quinquedentatum, dentibusduo-Y or feparated from the-corolla, having five
busfuperioribusbreviffimis, tribus inferioribus X teeth, of which the two uppermoft are very
fetaceis, pilofis, corolla brevioribus, fig. 1. V Ihort, the three lowermoft letaceous, hairy,
X , and fhorter than the corolla, Jig. 1.
-COROLLA calyce duplo longior, perfiftens, Vexillum ❖ COROLLA twice the length of the calyx, perma-
fuberedum, nervofum, margine ferratum,' p nent; Standard nearly upright, rib’d, the
perada florefcentia magnitudine augetur, et edge ferrated, the flowering being over, it
deorfum fleditur; Alee conniventes, vexillo | becomes increafed in fize and turns back;
breviores: Carina minima, intra alas, iifque ❖ Wings clofing, fhorter than the ftandard:
brevior, fig. 2. | Keel very fmall, within the wings and fhorter
6 than them, Jig. 2.
PERICARPIUM: L e g u m e n - corolla tedum, mem- ^ SEED-VESSEL: a Pod covered with the corolla,
branaceum, monofpermum, parietibus tenu- ❖ membranous, containing one feed, the fides
iffimis, cito corrumpentibus, relida tantum | being very thin, foon decay, and leave nothing
futura cum mucrone, Jig. 4. <0 but the future with its point, fig. 4.
[SEMEN unicum, nitidum, fufeum five aurantiacum, f SEED fingle, fhining, of a brown or orange colour,
fig* 5* t fig- 5*
The name of Hop Trefoil has been with much propriety bellowed on this plant, as the little heads formed by
the flowers are larger and more refembling the Hop than thofe of any of the other fpecies.
We are carefully to diftinguifh it from the Trifolium procumbens, than which it is in every refped larger, and
[lefs procumbent.
It is by no means an uncommon plant in dry paflures, on the borders of fields, and in gravelly foils; in fome
f fields I have obferved it naturally to form a confiderable part of the Farmer’s crop, which though a fmall one
[ was judged to make excellent fodder.
It is perhaps one of thofe plants which merits the further attention of the Hufbandman.
[ June and July are the months in which it ufually flowers.
I Scopoli doubts, and apparently with great propriety, whether the Trifolium fpadiceum o f L innaeus be a
[ fpecies diftind from this.