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P. paiicirolia, Willi]. Fringed Polygala. 



Faribault. Kice county, Mm* Beam . [ Kanunistiiiuia river, north of lake Superior, 

 Mact'iiii.] Eare. 



LEOUMINOS.E. Pulse Family. 



lA'PIXUS, Tourn. Lupine. 



Li. pereniiis, L. Wild Lupine. Perennial Lupine. 



Common on light, sandy land from lake Pepin to the sources of the Mississippi riv- 

 er ; also, Fergus Falls, Leonard. Rarely found with white flowers. 



TRIFOLIUM, L. Ciovek. 



T . oriense, L. Bahbif-foof or Stone Clover. 

 8aint Cloud, Stearns county, CamphcU. U.ire. 



T. prate»se, L. Fed Clover. 



Frequently adventive throughout the state. 



T. vepens, L. White Clover. Shamrock. 



Occurring like the last, already very abundant in many districts ; also quite cer- 

 tainly indigenous through the north half of the state, (lavh, Upham. 



T. hi/hridum, L.* Alsike Clover. 



Adventive, but scarcely established. Saint Cloud (sandy soil, on the grounds of the 

 Normal School), Camphell. Rare. 



T.proctimbeiis, L. Yelloic Clover. Low Hop-Clover. 



Stearns county (both the type and the var. minus, Koch), Campbell: Saint Paul, 

 Minneapolis and lake Minnetonka (sparingly adventive), Roberts; lake Pepin, Afi<s 

 Manniiiij. Rare. 



MELjILOTUS, Tourn. Melilot. Sweet Clover. Hart's 



Clover. 



M. officinalis, Willd. Yellow MeJilot. 



Goodhue county, Sandhcrg; Minneapolis (fretiuent), Rohe)ts; Stearns county. Gar- 

 rison: YAue Earth county, -Lei/(er(/. South. 



M. alba, Lam. JVhite Melilot. 



Throughout the south half of the state. More frequent than the preceding. 



MEDICAGO, L. Medick. 



M. sotiva, L. Luverne. Alfalfa. 



Escaped from cultivation, Blue Earth county, Li'ihuuj; Minneapolis, Winchell. 



*TrifoJiumhubridiiin, L. Almost glabrous; leaflets obovate or oblong ; stipules 

 oblong, tips triangular ; heads axillary, peduncled, globose ; pedicels elongate, at 

 length reflexed ; flowers [whitish, rose-tinted] drooping; calyx tube campanulate, 

 gibbous ; teeth subulate, nearly equal, unaltered in fruit. Hoahrr's Students' Flora of 

 tlu: British Islands. (See Botaiiical Gazvttv, vol. vii, pp. 121 and 135.) 



