200 DIADEL^HTA DECANDRIA 



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This plant, a native of Europe, is now completely "-^"y;;;;;^;; ^^J^J 

 Icrhbourhood of Charleston. It grows very luxuriantly, but no specie. 



neighbourhood of Charleston. 



of domestic stock appears willing to eat it 



Grows in cl*se soils. 



Floweis April — May. 



. I have among my specimens one collected in the state of New-York by 

 , V...... *:.,/i„i™. .,„o..i,, ^ll^.tirnl. flowers verv small, whitish or 



Whitlow 



white, and scattered along a very long raceme or spike, which appears to 

 me evidently a distinct species. 



TRIFOLIUM. Gen. Pl. 1211. 



Le<^umcn calyce ! Pod covered with 

 tectumT evalve, 2—4 | the calyx, without 

 spcimura. Flores sub- valves, 2—4 seeded, 

 capitati. Flowers generally in 



I heads. 



1. Carolinianum. Mich. 



T. puslllum, pro- 1 Small, procumbent 5 

 cnmbens; foliolis ob- | leaflets obcordate, (the 

 corclatis, . (siipremis 

 lautiun emargiiiatis,) 

 pilosis, (lentatis ; sti- 



bifidis, eapitulis 

 ibuSjped 



upper only, emargi- 

 nate,) hairy, toothed ; 

 stipules 2-cleft; heads 

 or umbels peduncu- 

 late, reflected, few 



latis, rcflexis,pauciflo- flowered ; corolla 



ris; corollis vix exser- scarcely exserted ; 

 tis ; legumiaibus 3— | pods 3 — 4 seeded 

 4 spermis, 



Mich. 2. p. 58. Pur.sU 2. p, 477. 

 T. repens? Walt. p. 183. 



Root somewhat fusiform, probably perennial. Stem divar 

 trate,assurpentatdicsummit, hairy, 3—10 inches high. 'Leafi 



slightly glaucous utderneath, 3—5 lines long, 3—4 wide, on P*^f '^f ^'J; 

 2 inches loner. S/l^J?//^.? 2 at the base of each petiole, oblxquely lant ^^ 

 bte, acuminated, toothed, with the nerve divided at the summit. t^_ 

 ersmmerom, (16-20) on small umbels, erect when expanded, ai^^^^ 

 wards relletted. the common pedunclos teriuuud uud axillary;/ ^'> 



pros' 





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