PULSE FAMILY 



Trifolium: for derivation see agrarium. 

 Repens: Latin for creeping. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: meadows and waste places, 

 often cultivated for fodder. 



THE PLANT: branched; the branches creeping, often root- 

 ing at the nodes, four inches to twelve inches long; the 

 stem without hairs or with a few, scattered ones. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; palmately three-divided, the leaf- 

 lets obovate or obcordate; three-quarters of an inch long 

 or less; without hairs or with few short, soft ones; often 

 notched at the apex; broadly wedge-shaped at the base; 

 long-stemmed. 



THE FLOWERS: in globose heads, on long stems, the indi- 

 vidual flowers on long pedicels which hang down when old, 

 giving an untidy ragged appearance to the heads. 



THE FRUIT: a small pod. 



The lay person finds not infrequently when trying to 

 distinguish different species in the same genus, that he 

 can mate the flowers: So it is with the true clovers 

 (Trifolium). For the Alsation white (hybridum) and the 

 "white" (repens) pair off and the yellows, the Yellow Hop 

 (agrarium) and the Low Hop (procumbens) are similar. 

 Of the two white clovers this, repens, is the one whose 

 branches root at the nodes 



LEGUMINOS^E PULSE FAMILY 







Melilotus alba, Desr. 



White Sweet Clover, 



White Melilot, 



June-October Honey-lotus, 



Honey Clover, 

 Tree Clover. 



Melilotus: from Greek for honey and some leguminous plant. 

 Alba: Latin for white. 



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