. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Botany; Zoology; Geology. 2G2 Mr. C. Babington on the British Species of Lotus. in /3 clothed with long spreading hairs, strongly ciliated and fleshy in 7. Stipules ovate, slightly unequal, in 3 semi-ovate. Peduncles long. Bracteas obovate, slightly unequal. Pedicels very short, 5—10 together. Calyx segments about as long as their own tube, shorter in 7, equalling or slightly shorter than that of the corolla, their tips not diverging in the ]jud, the points of the two upper ones turned towards each other when the flower has expanded, the interstice
. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Botany; Zoology; Geology. 2G2 Mr. C. Babington on the British Species of Lotus. in /3 clothed with long spreading hairs, strongly ciliated and fleshy in 7. Stipules ovate, slightly unequal, in 3 semi-ovate. Peduncles long. Bracteas obovate, slightly unequal. Pedicels very short, 5—10 together. Calyx segments about as long as their own tube, shorter in 7, equalling or slightly shorter than that of the corolla, their tips not diverging in the ]jud, the points of the two upper ones turned towards each other when the flower has expanded, the interstices between the segments rounded. Flowers yellow, claw of the standard much dilated and vaulted transversely. Pods linear, terete, straight, with a long setaceous deflexed rostrum springing exactly from the middle of the apex. Seeds numerous, oval, compressed, smooth. Common throughout the British Islands, in fields, on hedge banks, and dry places. Fig. 1. L. corniculatus. a, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [S. l. : s. n. ]
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