54 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
In fields and by roadsides. Var. « perfectly naturalized near 
Saffron Walden, Essex; var. 6 in clover-fields about Moulsey, 
Chessington, and Claygate, in Surrey, but not permanent in these 
localities. Both are occasionally found throughout the country, 
either introduced with clover-seed, or the remains of a crop sown 
for fodder. 
[England.| Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high, branched, flexuous. Leaves of 
the radical tufts and base of the stem on petioles often 3 or 4 inches 
long. Leaflets ? to 1} inch long, with the lateral veins excurrent, 
forming more or less projecting teeth. Stipules herbaceous towards 
the apex, but white with green veins towards the base. Peduncles 
from the axils of the upper leaves, commonly 2 to 4 inches long. 
Flower-heads # to 1 inch across, becoming much flattened on the 
upper side by the bending down of the flowers after flowering, when 
the elongate arched pedicels become visible at the apex of the head. 
Flowers about $ inch long, whitish, tinged with pale rose. Calyx 
somewhat membranous, whitish, with the teeth green, the upper 
teeth a little longer than the others. Corolla with the standard 
folded down over the fruit, retaining its shape but turning brown 
and membranous, striated. Pods ovoid, obtuse at the apex, com- 
pressed, not bossulated. Seeds flattened, and notched at the hilum. 
Plant bright-green, with the leaflets having often a white mark in 
the centre. Stems and peduncles with a few adpressed hairs, but 
otherwise the plant is glabrous. 
I fully concur in Mr. Baker’s remark in his “ Flora of North 
Yorkshire,” that T. hybridum and T. elegans cannot be specifically 
distinguished ; neither the British nor the German and Scandina- 
vian specimens which I have received under these names show any 
greater difference than that between the cultivated and wild forms 
of the Red Clover, yet Continental authors are so generally agreed 
as to the existence of two species, that I suspect there must be a 
«'T’, elegans,” of which no examples have come under my notice. 
Alsike Clover, 
French, 7réfle Hybride. German, Bastard Klee. 
Sometimes cultivated in this country, but much less generally than the Red Clover. 
SPECIES XVI—TRIFOLIUM REPENS. Lin. 
Puate CCCLXII. 
Rootstock branched. Stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, the 
extremities sometimes ascending. Leaves on long stalks; leaflets 
oval or obovate, rounded or slightly notched at the apex, sharply 
