Z7&.9.
/G£0* 2789
TRIPOLIUM resupinatum.
Reversed Trefoil.
DIADELPHIA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Flowers more or less capitate. Pod
scarcely longer than the calyx, one-seeded, falling
off entire.
Spec. Char. Heads hemisphaerical, at length globose,
on stalks which lengthen greatly by age. Corolla
reversed. Calyx after flowering membranaceous,
reticulated, inflated, hairy; its teeth acute, two of
them longer, patent. Leaflets obovate. Stem
prostrate.
Syn. Trifolium resupinatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1086.
JVilld. Sp. PI. v. 3.1379. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2.
202. Hook. Brit. FI. ed. 2. 327. De Cand. FI.
Fr. ed. 2. v. 4. 534. Duby, Bot. Gall. 134.
D lS C O Y E R E D in meadows near Bristol, by Blr.
Drummond. We are indebted to Thomas Bell Salter,
Esq., for a new station, it having been found by him, about
the Midsummer of 1831, growing very luxuriantly near the
Poole Ballast-quay at Ham, opposite Poole Quay. He
observes that it may possibly be brought in ballast from
Bristol. Owing to alterations since made in the quay, it
has been much trodden, and has consequently diminished in
stature : the two states are shown in our plate*.
Root perennial, fibrous. Stems several, prostrate, or
* The specimens came by post, and although sufficiently fresh in colour,
the heads were much crumpled; and the position of the flowers not having
been well observed, they are not drawn reversed, as they should be, but the
relative position of the petals and calyx is correct.