Trifolium saxatile, All. Trifolium bocconei, Savi

51. T. saxatile All. View in CoL , Mélang. Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin {Mise. Taur.} 5: 77 (1774).

Annual, greyish-pubescent; stems 5—15 cm, often numerous, procumbent or ascending. Leaflets 3-6 mm, narrowly obovate-cuneate, emarginate;stipules ovate or lanceolate, acute, the upper ones dilated, reddish with darker veins. Heads 6-10 mm wide, depressed-globose, few-flowered, sessile and sheathed at the base by the stipules. Calyx readily abscissing at maturity, its tube ovoid, denselyhairy; teeth straight or incurved, unequal, all shorter than the tube. Corolla 3-4 mm, whitish or pinkish, not exceeding the calyx. Dry gravel and moraines. • Alps. Au Ga He It.

52. T. bocconei Savi View in CoL , Atti Accad. Ital. {Firenze} 1: 191 (1808).

Annual; stems (2-)5-25(-30) cm, densely pubescent, erect or ascending, sparingly branched. Leaflets of upper leaves 7-23 mm, narrowly cuneate-oblong, glabrescent, denticulate, veins nearly straight. Stipules lanceolate, abruptly contracted above, the upper ones not dilated. Heads 9-15 mm, dense, cylindrical or conical, the terminal ones often paired but unequal. Calyx-tube cylindrical, pubescent; teeth subulate, erect or connivent, unequal, the lowest one equalling the tube. Corolla 4-5 mm, pinkish, equalling the calyx, persistent in fruit. Dry places. S. & W. Europe, northwards to S. W. England. BI Br Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Sa Si Tu [Ge Hs].

53. T. tenuifolium Ten. View in CoL , FI. Nap. 1, Prodr.'. 44 (1811).

Like 52 but stems more branched and spreading; upper leaflets linear or oblong; calyx-teeth not connivent in fruit; corolla twice as long as the calyx, pink or cream. • 5. Italy, Balkan peninsula, Aegean region. Al Bu Cr Gr It Ju Tu.