Curtis, William; Darton, William; Edwards, Sydenham; Kilburn, William; Sansom, Francis; Sowerby, James; White, Benjamin: 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 Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts. volume 2, ca 1777<br><i>Lotus corniculatus</i>, Birds-foot Trefoil (Plate 56, original text by OCR)<br>ROOT perennial, tapering, ſtriking deeply into the earth.<br> STALKS ſeveral, ſlender, procumbent, ſomewhat ſquare, a foot in length, and branched.<br> LEAVES growing three together, ovate, terminating in a ſhort point, the middle leaf narrowed at its baſe, ſmooth or ſlightly hirſute.
STIPULÆ two, in ſome degree like the leaves, but broader, and more pointed.<br> FLOWERS growing ſomewhat in the form of an umbell, to twelve, ſitting on long foot—ſtalks.<br> CALYX: a PERIANTHIUM tubular, below the middle ſurrounded by a prominent ring, having five teeth, which are ſetaceous and a little hairy, the two uppermoſt riſing upward, the three lowermoſt bending back, fg. 1.<br> COROLLA papilionaceous and yellow: the VEXILLUM turned back.; on its upper part of an orange colour, underneath, at its baſe, marked with about eight lines: WINGS two, yellow and blunt at the tips: KEEL gibbous below, riſing upwards, and pointed, fig. 2.<br> SEEDS numerous, more than twenty, ſmall, ſomewhat kidney-ſhaped, and ſpotted, fig. 11, 12.
Curtis, William; Darton, William; Edwards, Sydenham; Kilburn, William; Sansom, Francis; Sowerby, James; White, Benjamin;
1777
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