WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 



apex. The margins and veinings are very similar 

 to those of the Yellow Clover. The sweetly scented 

 flowering heads usually occur in terminal pairs. They 

 are oblong or cylindrical in shape, and the general 

 colour is a beautiful pearl-gray tinted with pink. 

 They are composed of numerous florets densely 

 arranged in the exceedingly thick and downy plume 

 which varies fr.om one-quarter to an inch or so in length. 

 The greenish-white corolla of the tiny floret is much 

 shorter than the little green calyx, which extends its 

 five remarkably long, feathery pink tips out of all 

 reasonable proportion, to form the silky heads. The 

 Stone Clover is a native of northern Asia. It blos- 

 soms from May to September and is more or less 

 common east of the Mississippi. 



WHITE, DUTCH OR HONEYSUCKLE CLOVER 



Trifolium repens. Pea Family. 



This is the commest of the white Clovers and is found 

 everywhere in great abundance. It is extensively used 

 for lawns and has been cultivated in some parts of the 

 country where it is highly prized as a pasture for 

 cattle. Bee-keepers claim that the sweetly scented 

 flowers produce the choicest quality of white honey. 

 It is generally supposed that this species is identical 

 with the Shamrock of Ireland, although it is thought to 

 be native to the northern United States and Canada. 

 The leaf is commonly compounded of three parts or 

 leaflets, but here and there a solitary leaf is occasionally 

 found bearing four or more parts. The four-parted 



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