. Flowers of the field. Botany. 128 LEGUMINOS.'E 3. L. iilii:;nn'^si/s (Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil).âGenerally hairy, but sometimes glabrous, i â3 feet high ; sfei/is tubular, weak, and usually supported by surrounding plants ;' leaflets obovate ;peduncles very long : fJiKccrs deep yellow, 5 â12 together ; cafyx-ieef/t, while in bud, like a star, two upper ones diverging. â Damp places ; common.âFl. July, vlugust. Perennial. 4. Z. ii//x'tis//ssiM//s (Least Bird's-foot Trefoil).âA much smaller plant than Z. lOrniciildfiis, prostrate, hairy, with shorter/»/?/â ;/<-/« ; flowers s
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 128 LEGUMINOS.'E 3. L. iilii:;nn'^si/s (Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil).âGenerally hairy, but sometimes glabrous, i â3 feet high ; sfei/is tubular, weak, and usually supported by surrounding plants ;' leaflets obovate ;peduncles very long : fJiKccrs deep yellow, 5 â12 together ; cafyx-ieef/t, while in bud, like a star, two upper ones diverging. â Damp places ; common.âFl. July, vlugust. Perennial. 4. Z. ii//x'tis//ssiM//s (Least Bird's-foot Trefoil).âA much smaller plant than Z. lOrniciildfiis, prostrate, hairy, with shorter/»/?/â ;/<-/« ; flowers solitary or 2 together, small, yellpvv, fading green ; pods an inch or more m length.âSouth of England, near the sea; very rare.âFl. July, August. Annual. S. L. hhpidns (Hispid Bird's-fout Trefoil), a closely-allied, more silky form, \\\^ flowers 2â4 together, not fading green, and pods not more than j in. long, occurs very rarely, near the sea, in Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall.â Fl. July, August. Annual. 11. (Milk-Vetch). â Herbs with stipulate, impafipinnate /eai'es : Jlo'ocrs in axillary racemes or spikes; ca' with 5 sub-equal teeth; corolla with blunt keel; stamens diadelphous ; /ft/with a longitudinal septum, 2-valved. (Name from the Greek astrcii^alos, a pastern bone, but not applicable to tfjis genus.) T. A. alpinus (Alpine Milk-vetch). âA slender, prostrate, hairy plant, with 10â12 pairs of oblong leaflets ; free stipules : shortly- stalked, close racenies of a few drooping floK'ers, which are white or pale blue, tipped wuh purple ; and pendulous pods covered with black ()ccurs very rarely oh Scottish mountains.â Fl. July. Perennial. 2. A. ddniais (l'ur[)lo .Milk-vetch),^A similar .species, with 8- -10 pairs of leaflets; connate stip'i/les, opposite the leaf; peduncles longer than the leaves; plowers many, ascending, in ovoid heads, purple ; and erect pod<:.âllry soil, in the eastern counties ; rare. k1. June, July, i'erenfti
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