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L O T U S tenuis.
Slender Bird’s-foot Trefoil.
D IAD E LPH IA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Legume cylindrical, spongy within.
Wings converging at their upper edges. Filam.
partly dilated.
Spec. Char. Heads of few flowers. Stems recumbent,
nearly solid. Legumes somewhat spreading,
cylindrical, two-edged. Calyx hairy ; its
teeth shorter than the tube.—Sm.
Syn. Lotus tenuis. Waldst. $ Kitaib. in Willd. Enum.
797. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. 281.
L. decumbens. Forst. Tonbr. 86. Sm. Engl. FI.
v. 3. 314. (not of Poiret and of Seringe.)
L. depressus & humifusus. Willd. Enum. Suppl.
52. from Link Enum. v. 2. 265. (according to
Seringe.)
L. corniculatus, var. tenuifolius. Pollich. FI. Pal.
n. 711. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1395. Ser. in
DeCand. Prod. v. 2. 214. Fries Nov. Suec.
235.
L. Forsteri. Sweet Hort. Brit. v. 1. 118.
L. pentaphyllos minor angustioribus foliis fruti-
cosior. Raii Syn. 334.
W E are indebted to Mr. Borrer for several of the above
synonyms, and for the specimen here figured, which was
gathered in August 1828, in Sussex, where it is not rare in
waste places, and on a clayey soil. The same gentleman
also observes to us that it is abundant in meadows below
Cook’s Folly, near Bristol, and that it is probably the
L . diffusus of Turner and Sowerby, in Trans, o f Linn. Soc.
v. 5. p. 238. Ray says it grows in cornfields and in moist