182 THE PEA FAMILY. 



The blossoming of the white clover commences with the lower flowers, which, 

 as fast as overblown, turn brown, and bend downwards, presenting a singular 

 contrast to the white and erect corollas on the upper and younger portion of the 

 head. The leaves are sensitive to the light, and when the plant is in vigour, 

 generally close at the approacli of evening. The leaflets are often prettily marked ' 

 with white arches, and a variety not uncommon in gardens, has them of a deep 

 maroon colour. In the latter the leaves are often quinate, and even septate. 

 The sepals are frequently so much enlarged as to give the head a green and 

 tufted look, like that of a viviparous grass ; and occasionally the corollas assume 

 a pinky tint. 



25. Cbeam-colotjred Clovek — [Trifolium ochroleiicum.) 



Occasionally in dry, cultivated fields. Chorlton, Hyde, and near 

 Strines. (Mr. J. Sidebotham.) Fl. July, August. 

 Curtis, ii, 413; E. B. xvii, J 224. 

 The corolla turas brown when overblown, like that of the T. repens. 



26. Common Honey Clovek — {Trifolium pratense.) 



Meadows and pastures, everywhere, both cultivated and as the 

 result of former cultivations. Fl. summer and autumn. 

 E. B. XXV. 1770 ; Baxter, iv. 283. 

 The leaflets often have white arches on them, like those of the T. repens. 



27. Zigzag Clovek — {Trifdlium medium.) 



Dry banks and uncultivated edges of fields, generally entangled 

 among low and scrubby bushes, common. Fl. summer and autumn. 



E. B. ii. 190. 



The flowers are much more elegant than those of the common honey-clover, 

 from which it is distinguishable not more by its globular instead of egg-shaped 

 head of flowers, its wavy and zigzag stem, and spotless leaves, than by its habi- 

 tats, which are never in the open fields, but always in some scene of entanglement, 

 and often of prickles. 



28. BLa.be's-foot Tkefoil — [Trifdlium arvense.) 



In dry, cultivated fields, but very infrequently. Withiugton ; 

 Bowdon, with the Reseda lutea ; at Eccles, among Italian rye-grass 

 (J. S.); Mobberley. (Mr. Holland.) Fl. July, August. Annual. 

 Curtis, ii. 414 ; E. B. xiv. 044. 

 Tt''lian rye-grass is the crop in which this curious little plant is to be looked 

 • TL greatest likelihood of success (avoiding trespass into the field a? much as 

 variety t), since the two plants are in perfection at the same time. 



