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Var. tenerum Parish. Stems 4 to 12 inches high, rather conspicuously villous; leaflets 

 oblanceolate, acute ; stipules serrate ; heads mostly 3 to 6-flowered ; involucral divisions laciniate 

 almost to the base, equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx-tube ; calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate. 

 — Sandy banks of streams in the mountains, 6000 to 7000 feet : Fresno Co. to Tulare Co. : Marble 

 Fork Kaweah Eiver, Jepson 732 ; Bench Mdw., Kaiser Kidge, Fresno Co., Jepson 13,228. 



Var. grantianum Parish. Stems more slender than in the species ; herbage glabrous, bright 

 green; petioles l^/^ to 4 times longer than the leaflets; leaflets oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, 4 

 to 8 lines long; stipules entire or sometimes shallowly toothed; flowers 5 to 7 lines long; calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate-subulate. — High montane, San Jacinto, San Bernardino and San Gabriel moim- 

 tains : Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 1303 ; Vivian Canon, Mt. San Gorgonio, Geo. 

 B. Grant 6343 ; Ontario Peak, John- 

 ston 1550. 



Var. puslllum Jepson comb. n. 

 Plants ^ to % inch high; herbage 

 glabrous; stipules rather deeply 

 toothed ; leaflets few-toothed ; invol- 

 ucre irregularly and laciniately sev- 

 eral-toothed, about 1 to 1^/^ lines in 

 diameter; heads 1 or 2-flowered; 

 flowers 2 to 2% lines long; calyx 

 about 1 line long, the teeth lanceo- 

 late-subulate, slightly shorter than 

 the tube. — High montane, central 

 Sierra Nevada, 5000 to 7400 feet: 

 Silver Lake, Mono Co., Peirson 7573. 



Eef s. — Trifolium monanthum 

 Gray,Proc. Am. Acad. 6:523 (1866), 

 type loc.Tuolurmie Soda Sprs., Brew- 

 er; McDer. N. Am. Sp. Trifolium 

 96, pi. 35 (1910) ; Jepson, Man. 540, 

 fig. 528 (1925). T. monanthum i. 

 spatiosum McDer. I.e. 98, type loc. 

 Independence Lake, Sierra Co., Hall 

 4- Chandler 613. Var. parvum 

 McDer. I.e. 105, pi. 39 ; Jepson, Man. 

 I.e. T. pauciflorum var. parvum 

 Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 5:54 (1873), 

 type loc. Cisco, Sierra Nevada. T. 

 parvum Hel. Muhl. 1:114 (1905). 

 T. multicaule Jones, Bull. Torr. Club 

 9:31 (1882), type loc. Soda Sprs. 

 near Summit sta., Nevada Co., 

 Jones. T. monanthum var. parvum 

 f . glairifolium McDer. I.e. 108, type 

 loc. near Porcupine Flat, n. Mari- 

 posa Co., c. 8300 ft., Eall 4- Bal- 

 cocJc. Var. tenerum Parish, Bot. 

 Gaz. 38:461 (1904); McDer. I.e. 

 100, pi. 36; Jepson, Man. I.e. T. 

 tenerum Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club 

 29:81 (1902),typeloc. Summit and 

 Bearskin Mdws., Fresno Co., East- 

 wood. Var. GRANTIANUM Parish, PI. 

 World 20 : 220 (1917) ; Jepson, Man. 

 I.e. T. grantianum Hel. Muhl. 1: 



136 (1906), type loc. Mt. San Gorgonio, San Bernardino Co., Geo. B. Grant 6343. T. monanthum 

 var. tenerum f. grantianum McDer. I.e. 101, pis. 37, 38. T. simulans House, Bot. Gaz. 41:341, 

 fig. 8 (1906), type loc. San Jacinto Mts., Hall 710. Var. pusikLiUM Jepson. I. pusillum Greene, 

 Pitt. 3:217 (1897), type loc. "Yosemite Valley", Parry. 



11. T. cyathiferum Lindl. Mountain Clover. (Fig. 195.) Stems erect or 

 decumbent, 3 to 12 inches long ; herbage strictly glabrous ; leaflets narrowly obovate 

 to elliptic-oblong, 5 to 12 lines long ; involucre membranous, bowl-shaped, 4 to 10 

 lines broad, the lobed margin unequally toothed; flowers 3 to 4 lines long, scarcely 

 exceeding the involucre; calyx-teeth 1 to 3 times trichotomously forked; corolla 

 white or light pink, soon turning brown; pods usually 2-seeded. 



Fig. 195. Trifolium cyathiferum Lindl. a, habit, 

 X ^/^ ; &, involucre spread open, X 3 ; c, fl., X 3 ; (?, calyx 

 spread open, X 3. 



