340 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 

 437. YELLOW SWEET-CLOVER 



MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS (L.) Lam. 



A few plants in waste places about Culver. Not nearly so ro- 

 bust a plant as the other species. It preceded the white sweet 

 clover a number of years in its introduction into this country, and 

 was well known in waste places about cities long before the other 

 species was ever heard of. It never succeeded in spreading far 

 into the country and is now rather scarce even in cities, it having 

 apparently been largely supplanted or crowded out by its more 

 robust relative and rival. 



438. RABBIT-FOOT CLOVER 



TRIFOLIUM ARVENSE L. 



Not particularly common ; only a few plants seen. Found in 

 dry sandy places and old wornout sandy fields. It seems actually 

 to prefer barren wornout rocky places and the more eminently 

 desolate the place may be as to other plants, the better the rabbit's 

 foot clover thrives. The elongate woolly pink blossoms are among 

 the prettiest to be found among the clovers. 



May 25, 1901, in flower by Arlington ; October 25, 1906, finely 

 in blossom in the Assembly grounds ; November 6, 1904, nearly ripe, 

 at the edge of Green's marsh. 



439. RED CLOVER 



TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE L. 



Common everywhere in open places along highways, a few 

 plants scattered along the lake shore. In flower from May 23 until 

 into November. 



440. ALSIKE; ALSATIAN CLOVER 



TRIFOLIUM HYBRIDUM L. 



Somewhat common along roadsides and a few plants on the 

 lake shore near Farrar's. This clover will thrive in black loamy 

 soils where the red clover freezes out. It, mixed with timothy, is 

 becoming a favorite hay crop in some parts of the state. Noted 

 in bloom first blossoms about June 11, abundant in flower June 17. 

 It should make a good honey plant, flowers exceedingly fragrant, 

 the odor being soft and bland when compared with that of the white 

 clover, which is somewhat spicy. 



