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948); but whether in this county is not known. If not, the first 

 record is Goodenough, about 1800. It has not been recently collected 

 in Middlesex.] 



174. T. fragiferum, L. Strawberry Trefoil. 



Cyb. Br. i. 303 ; Comp. 144. Curt. F. L. f. 2 (drawn from a Middlesex 

 specimen). 



Wet meadows, sides of streams, &c. ; rather common. P. July — Sep- 

 tember. 



I. Harefield; Blackst.Fasc. 101. 



II. Bet. Hampton and Hampton Court ! ; Newh. By the Thames bet. 

 Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. About Staines. 



III. Thames bank bet. Twickenham and Eichmond Bridge. Eoxeth ; 



Hind. 



IV. Near the clay-pits, Harrow Weald. Near Harrow Ey. Station. Bet. 



Wilsdon and Neesdon ; Farrar. 

 VII. [Hyde Park ; Dicks'. H. 5.] Lanes about Hornsey and near Pancras ; 

 C^lrt. F. L. South Heath, Hampstead. Eel Brook Meadow, Par- 

 son's Green. 

 First record : Curtis, about 1780. 



175. ^ T. liybridum, Z. Alsike Clover. 



T. elegans, Savi. Cyb. Br. iii. 332. Syme E. B. iii. t. 361. 

 Waste ground and roadsides. P. June — September. 

 I. Harefield. 



II. Towing-path bet. Kingston Bridge and Hampton Court ; Bloxam. 

 V. Chiswick; Newb. Apperton. 

 VII. Green lanes, Newington ! ; Newb. About Little Chelsea and Parson's 

 Green, common. Site of Exhibition of 1862, S. Kensington. 

 First record : the Authors, 1866. Cultivated as a fodder plant, and hence 

 widely disseminated. 



176. T. repens, L. White or Butch Clover. 

 T. 'pratense album, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 291 ; Comp. 141. Curt. F. L. f. 3, 



Waysides, fields, waste land, &e. ; very common. P. April— September. 



In all the districts. 

 VII. In London itself it frequently occurs, e.g. in the parks and squares, 

 and most pieces of waste ground. 



First record : Bag, 1670. A monstrosity in which the parts of the flower 

 are leaflike and the pedicels longer is frequently met with, and is re- 

 corded under the name of T. alb. zimbella siliquosa as found ' about 

 London ' by Eay ; Cat. i. 304. (See also Ray's Letters, p. 222.) ' In 

 the exceptionally hot summer of 1868, many plants in the turf of 

 Eegent's Park became almost the plant noticed by Townsend in the 

 Scilly Isles; see 8eem. J. of Bot. ii. 1, and t. 13;' Newb. 



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