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MELILOTUS Juss. 



M. OFFICINALIS (L.) Lam. Yellow Melilot. 



Ohio: near Wheeling {Mertz & Guttenberg). 

 M. ALBA Desv. White Melilot. Sweet Clover. Bokhara Clover. 

 Roadsides and ditches. Jackson : near Sandyville. Wood : 

 near Parkersburg. Monongalia : near Morgantown. Berke- 

 ley : near Martinsburg. Jefferson : near Summit Point, and 

 Shenandoah Junction Mason : near Pt. Pleasant. Mineral : 

 near Keyser. Hardy : near Moorefield, 



TRIFOLIUM L. 



T. ARVENSE L. Rabbit-foot Clover. 



Established in many places along roadsides and in old 

 fields. Kanawha : near Pocotaligo. Jackson : along C. & P. 

 Pike. Mineral: near Keyser (IVorkiuan). Cabell: near 

 Barboursville (/a/nc.?). Jefferson : near Charlestown. Hamp- 

 shire : near Romney. 

 T. PRATENSE L. Red Clover. 



A common escape to fields roadsides, and open woods; 

 even in the higher Alleghenies. With pure white flowers. 

 Randolph: near Pickens (H. H. Smith, 1367). 

 T. ViRGiNicuM Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:112 (1894) Tab. 75. 



Perennial from a large and long root, dift'usely branched 

 from the summit of the root ; branches 2 to 4 cm. long, strict- 

 ly prostrate, pubescent ; leaves 3-foliate, petiole 4 to 8 cm. 

 long ; leaflets linear, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, i to 4 

 cm. long, acute or cuspidate, serrate-dentate, glabrous above, 

 more or less silky beneath, conspicuously veined ; sepals 

 ovate, conspicuous ; inflorescence in terminal, globose heads, 

 about 2.5 cm. in diameter; flowers whitish, more or less 

 crowded on slender pedicels, .2 to .4 cm., standard emarginate- 

 mucronate, striate ; calyx clothed with long silky hairs, the 

 teeth subulate, nearly half the length of the corolla. Pods 

 and seeds not seen. 



Growing on the rocky slopes of Kate's Mountain, Green- 

 brier County, in company with Clematis ovata {Small; Mac- 

 kenzie ; Heller, 843). 



This species is most closely related to T. stolonifcnun by 

 its flower, but in all other respects it differs from that and 

 all the other eastern American species. 

 T. REPENS L. White Clover. 



Fields, open woods, and waste places ; common throughout 

 the State. 



