RED CLOVER 



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toothed, notched, the upper entire, with a blunt point. The stipules 

 are membranous, with long bristle-like points, closely pressed to the 

 leaf-stalk, the free part blunt, egg-shaped, the veins branched and 

 crossing. 



The flowerheads are dense, stalkless or with a short stalk, egg- 



Photo. Holmes 



RED CLOVER ( Trifolium pratense, L.) 



shaped, terminal, at length round, with opposite leaves below. The 

 florets are pink, purple, or dirty white. The calyx is strongly ten- 

 veined, hairy above, not half as long as the corolla, with a two-lipped 

 contraction in the throat, the five teeth not longer than the corolla, 

 slender and unequal, four nearly equal to the tube, the lower twice as 

 long, fringed with hairs. The pod opens by the falling off of the top. 



