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denticulate at the margins, with rather prominent veins. Stipules 
- adnate for about half their length, oblong, with the free portion 
lanceolate, abruptly acuminated into a short point. Flower-heads 
all axillary, on stalks much exceeding their own length and longer 
than the leaves from which they spring, solitary, depressed-globular, 
lax. External bracts forming an imperfect involucre shorter than 
the calyx. Flowers on pedicels which are equal to or rather 
shorter than the calyx, reflexed after flowering. Calyx-tube bell- 
shaped, bulging at the base on the upper side, rather faintly nerved ; 
teeth triangular-subulate, the upper ones equal to the calyx-tube, 
the others a little shorter, unaltered in fruit. Corolla more than 
twice as long as the calyx, becoming scarious and striate when 
covering the pod. Pod 3- to 6-seeded, longer than the calyx-teeth. 
Plant sub-glabrous. 
In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Very common and 
generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 
Rootstock passing gradually into the creeping stems, which 
vary from a few inches to 1 foot or more in length. Leaflets vary- 
ing much in size in different localities, being from { to 1 inch long. 
Peduncles rising more or less vertically upwards, from 13 to,8 
inches long. Flower-heads % to 14 inch across, resembling those 
of T. hybridum. Flowers 2 to 4 inch long, white tinged with rose, 
but frequently without any rosy tinge. The standard after flowering 
becomes brown, and retains its shape as in the last species. The 
pod is rather narrower and bossulated or marked by the seeds. 
Seeds globular, compressed, notched at the hilum, generally 4 in 
number. Plant bright-green, glabrous. Leaflets commonly with a 
white mark. 
In a striking variety found by Mr. Townsend in the island of 
Tresco, Scilly, figured in the “Journal of Botany,” Vol. II. p. 1, 
the flowers are suffused with bright lilac-purple. 
White Clover, Dutch Clover. 
French, Zréfle Rampant. German, Weiss Klee. 
This pretty little plant is so familiar to us all, that it appears almost like a spon- 
taneous product of the soil, and so rapidly and constantly does it spring up, that 
Withering says, “On the soil of our moors in the North of England being turned up 
for the first time, and lime applied, White Clover appears in abundance, a circumstance 
in no way satisfactorily accounted for, but which is known to take place both in Britain 
and North America.” In such situations, doubtless, the seed may have lain dormant 
for a length of time, until stimulated into vegetation by the admission of moisture and 
heat. The plant is perennial, and bears its dense clusters of white blossoms all the 
