A synoptical compend of British botany ... arranged after the Linnean system / [John Kingston Galpine].

  • Galpine, John Kingston, -1806
Date:
1834
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Credit: A synoptical compend of British botany ... arranged after the Linnean system / [John Kingston Galpine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LASS XVII. DIADELPIIIA. ORDER III. DECANDRIA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 367. TRIFOLIUM. * Flowers capitate. Seeds several. Pods naked, 8-seeded, mostly 3-together, twice as long as the calyx: stems declining. Heads globose: FI. somewhat stalked: pods 4-seeded: stems creeping, solid. Heads sessile, lateral, roundish: pod concealed, 2-seeded : calyx- teeth lanceolate, acute, recurved, longer than the corolla. ** Calyxes generally villous. Seeds single. Heads villous, about 4-flow : involucre central, reflexed, rigid, star-like, embracing the fruit. Head villous: stem erect, pubescent: lower leafl. obcordate : lower tooth of the calyx very long. Spikes dense: stems' ascending: cor. unequal : cal. with four ot the teeth equal: stip. awned. Spikes loose : stems flexuose, branched : cor. nearly equal: stip. linear, awl-shaped : calyx teeth, 2 upper the shortest. Spikes hairy, globose : cal. teeth leafy, at length spreading : stip. lanceolate : leafl. obovate. • Spikes hairy: stip. elliptical: cal. teeth longer than the corolla ; after flowering, dilated, leafy, reticulated, and spreading: tube closed ; stem diffuse : leafl. obcordate. ) Spikes very villous, cylind : stip. lanceolate, bristle-pointed: c.ilyx- teeth setaceous, longer than the cor: lead, obovate-lineai. 1 Heads sessile, lateral, ovate : calyx-teeth unequal,lanceolate,ngit, finally recurved : stems procumbent. 2 Heads hemispherical, sessile, lateral, smooth: calyx-teeth coi- date, reflexed, veiny: stems prostrate. . B Heads sessile, lateral and terminal, ovate : cal. elliptical, hairy, furrowed ; teeth setaceous : stems procumbent. *** Calyxes inflated, ventricose. A Heads roundisli: cal. inflated, 2-toothed, reflexed : stems creeping. * * * * Standards deflexed, at length scariose. >;5 Spikes oval, imbricated : standard deflexed, permanent, furrowed . stems procumbent: leafl. obovate : common petiole longest at the base. <6 Spikes hemispherical: pedunc. straight: standard nearly smooth stems prostrate : common petiole shortest at the base. 7 Spikes of fevv-flow. lax . pedunc. waved : standard smooth: steins prostrate: leafl. all nearly sessile.