Flora londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnaeus and other authors, with a particular description of

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TRIFOLIUM. L n. Gn. pl. D1LDEL pHi A DECANDRIA. Hores subeapitati. Cui Iu vel Le timen vix calyce longius, non dehiscens, deciduum.

TRIFOLIUM Miros eum spicis villossis. eaule erem, pubescente. soliolis infinis obcordatis Li . Sus. Vegeras. d. 14. Murr p. 114s I . FI. Aust. o. a. p. 26. t. 4O. TRIFOLIUM burs uetim spicis villosa globos . corollis monopetalis, calyeum infimo dente longissimo recto, caule subdeclinato, soliisque villosis infinis obcordatis. Im M. FI. AM . M. u.', 325. TRIFOLIUM eaule erecto, soliis hirsutis, supremis conjugatis, spicis oblongis . Hal7. Hi . 378. TRIFOLIUM praten se hirsutum in iis, fore albo sulphureo seu The great white oryello visi, Mea low-Tres it. TRIFOLIUM montanum majus fore albo-sulphureo. M tr. Pin. RADIX perennis. CAULES plures, pedales. mos, teretes, hirsuti sesquipedales, erecti, rai, saepe purpurascentes. ROOT perenniat. STAL RS severat, a socii to a socii and a hals in tengis, hirsute, osten

rahi, branched,

FOLIA utrinque hirsuta, mollia, integerrima, ad oras isaepe purpurea, insima minora, obcordata, scatilina majora longe petiolata, remota, ovato- longa, obtusa, suprema breve petiolata, 'angustiora.

sTIPULAE oblongae, semiamplexicaules, nervosis, bi- cuspidatae, apicibus praelongis FLORES in eapitulis, solitariis, villosis, primo sub- rotundis, demum subovatis LEAVES hairy on both siles. sost, persectly entire, Osten purple at the e ges, the sowermost ones smali, inversely heartias haped, those os the stathlarge, standing on long soot staths, ovato-

oblong obtuse, the ut permost Ones narro veri

What ovate.

CALYX continuinq; monophyllous, tubular, whitim, hirsute, sive toothed. the lowermost tooth twice ille tength of the Othera, A. 1. COROLLA papilionaeea, monopei ala, ochroleiaca COROLLA papilionaceous, monopetalous, pale veti infra tubulosum, tubo longitudine ο low: Sundisiis below tubular, tube the tengi hclentas calycmis ansim, limbo lanceolato, 6 os tho lowermost tooth os the eat s limbcompretio, erecto tuba longitudine: AI lanceolate, ut right, longili os the iube si des

aranoque cum vexillo coalitae, istoque multo compresse . mino and Mel uni ted to the

CALYX persistens, monophyllus, tubulatus, albidus, Iairsutus, quinque eritatus, insino dente caeteris 'diiplo longiore, ig. 1. breviores, ing. s. STAMINA: FiLΑMExi A diadelphasimplex et novem isdum: Aesitis in simplices, minutae savae. t PISI ILLUM: GEst M tu subovatum: STYLus subula tus, adscendens: ST1GMA simplex.

membranaceum, tener, tenue, monos permum. calyX, membranous, thin, tender, one-seeded.

The Trifolium o Broteticum borro iis name from the colour of iis bio sonas, Whicli is pale yellow, or brim stone and that constantly so ; by this char er it is stissicient ly distinguis hed si ona such os our other Cloveri as resembleit in their generat appearance to illis may add the greater hali iness of the whole plant, the unus ual len thand iis rightn s of the Vexilliini, as weli as the dis propomonate leng h of the lo vermost segment of the Ca ex Did sucii distinctions generes ly prevaal, enchanting in ieed would be the studue of plani, Thi ς species affects dry pastures in the more easteria paris of the kin dona, and frequently such as have actat hy or calcareotas soli; in the environs os London 1t is rarely sound : have observeci ii sparin tu abo ut Barnet; in sonae paris Oi Essex, especialty abolit Dunmow, it is particularly abundant, as We are assur d bu ou excellent fri nil, Dr. JoΗN SIM S, to Whose botanical sicili we are pro id os ac lino ledging oui selves frequentis indebi ed: we have received roots of it also ironi LE 1s MAIEN DIE, of Hedingliam Clite, Essex o vilio

Froin the great aversion it has to moasture, could nevor heop it in Our garden at Lambelli MarshIn possit os produce it is superior to the Trifolium repens, and, sor certa in stiis and fit uations, it ma per hans prove a good substitute sor it, or the pratense. We recommend it to the notice of the experimentat agri studiis

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sormes, longiores, irregulares Ras S n. Gen. s. HER AE FLORE EX FLOSCULIs FasTULARI pus CC M posITO,

CENTAUREA C his calycibus serratis, soliis linearibus integerrimis infinis dentatis. I in . S Q.Vexeras. ed. 14. Murr. p. 785. Sp. P . ed. s. p. 12 . FZ ec. n. 776. Ligis I RES I. v. 2. I. 499. Blue-bonnets. S I Aus. Ati f. FZ Ana L ed. 2. p. 375 CYANUs soliis imis ellipticis, dentatis, supremis linearibus, semisos ulis latissimis. A riger I s. n. is a. CENTAUREA Gantis. Se . FZ Ciarn. s. p. 138. CYANUS segetum. Baul. Pin. 273. CYANUS vulgaris: Ger. Hers. p. 592. CYANUS minor vulgaris diversorum colorum. Puri. TZes'. s. si . Rah. Syn. ed. a. s. 198. BlUe-botiles. RADIX annua, sub sussorinis, lignosa, fibros a. i ULIs erectus, bi tripedalis, subangulatus, tomento araneoso vestitus, situlosus, ramosus: Ris,i erecti, caule altiores. FOLIA eaulina alterna, sessilia, linearia, s ad 5 nervia, acuta, pagina superior alba, tomentosa; inserior viridis, nudiuscula, insura radicalia in adolescenti planta multo latiora, obtusiora, fet subintegra, iis proxima plus minusve den- tata, aut laciniata. FLORES laete caerulei, inodori: Peduhetiue simplices, superne incrassati. CALYX eommunis sub rotundus, imbricatus, squamis lanceolatis, interioribus longioribus, integris, superne rus escentibus, apice fibris suscescenti hiis ciliatis: exterioribus brevioribus, serratis,

serraturis reflexis .

COROLLA composita, sosculosa, dissormis, Cores

semisphrodi in plurimae in disco, A. s. femineae pauciores, majores, laxae in radio, fg. i. propn terren . 1-petata, tubo silis ornit, obli- ο quo, limbo ventricoso, oblongo, erecto, ter- θminato laciniis 5-linearibus, erectius eiciis, of meis a-petata, tubo tenui . sensim amplita oato, recurvo, limbo oblongo, inaequaliter Y

diviso, subplicato, laciniis lanceolatis. ISTAMINA hi j Iris F1LAMENTA 5, capillaria, brevissima: AN Tnsu A cylindra ea, tubulata,

Corolla paulo longior

si, rotas.

hroader, blunter, and sor the moli part entire, the n t to them more or lesti tosthed or

COROLLA eompotin . scisculose, mi Papen; thel maphro ire so eo in the centre numerous,

corolla.

. of the vegetable iribes are more hardy than the Corii Blue Aotile : iis seedling planti, whicli come us abundantly in Autumn. brave the severest si os is The radicat leaves aro entire, those whicli sol low usualty to the , s metimes dees ly jagged, hende soliis Hii τ ribus dentatis, Mould he more proper than Amreis. We have represente i a see ling plant, as it appears in the Sprinq; when the plant so vera, it loses in common Mith many othera iis radicat leaves, an vith them part os iis specine character. It grows abundani ly in most os cur corn-selds, whiel, it enituens by the brillianey os iis sto vers during the monilis os Iuno and Jυly the hos and man vlews it as a pornici ous weed requiring his great est care to radicate, as it is not only vory injurious to his eorta, but btunis the fictiles used in rea ping ii, whence iis nante os stir, silue found in s me old aut hora. Though a tro utiles me weed, agricultural ly considered, the heauty os iis so vera has recommendet it to thegar en, m Whi h it is now regularly sown, as an ornamental plant, Mith other annua is, and appeata Mith agreat diversi' os colour s. A sine blue sor colouring is sal l io have been extracted froni the bios tras os this plant: we should stronglys aspect ille durability of colour so obtaine it the blue u sed by my artilis in colouring iis outermost petuis is called a ure blud, and may be had. hy sueti as sin a disti ut ty in obtaining good colours, os Mr. W1LI1AM GRAVEs, Ne vington, Surrey, principat colourer os this woth, whose unweario ea re to so justiee to his emploreti has contributed not a litile to ad vance the reputation both of the Flora Londinensis and Boianicus

Magarine.