File:Lotus corniculatus (Curtis et al. 1777, Flora Londinensis v2, plate 56, no.107, BHL-127331) clean.png

English: 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
Lotus corniculatus, Birds-foot Trefoil (Plate 56, original text by OCR)
ROOT perennial, tapering, ſtriking deeply into the earth.
STALKS ſeveral, ſlender, procumbent, ſomewhat ſquare, a foot in length, and branched.
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.
FLOWERS growing ſomewhat in the form of an umbell, to twelve, ſitting on long foot—ſtalks.
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.
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.
STAMINA: ten FILAMENTS, nine uniting in a tube; the ſingle one looſe; the tips of all of them dilated, and white: ANTHERÆ ſmall and yellow, fig. 3, 4, 5, 6.
PISTILLUM: GERMEN ſlender, roundiſh, and bent downward: STYLE riſing upwards, and ſtraight: STIGMA very minute, fig. 7, 8, 9.
SEED-VESSEL: a cylindrical LEGUMEN of two valves, divided into a kind of cells, ſomewhat in the manner of the Radiſh, fig. 10.
SEEDS numerous, more than twenty, ſmall, ſomewhat kidney-ſhaped, and ſpotted, fig. 11, 12.