CHAPTER IV. 

 CLOVERS AND OTHER PASTURE PLANTS. 



SECTION I. CLOVERS AND ALLIED PLANTS. 



Besides the grasses treated of in the preceding chapters, 

 there are several other important pasture plants, chiefly 

 various members of the order Leguminosae or the clover 

 family. Most of these plants have flowers similar in structure 

 to that of the Sweet Pea, although the individual flowers 



A B c 



Fig. 23. Stipules in different varieties of Clovers, (after Percival), 

 A : Bed Clover ; B : Alsike ; C : Crimson Clover. 



may be small and crowded together in a head, as in Red and 

 White Clover. The fruit is a pod which may contain many 

 seeds, as in Lucerne, or only one, as in Red Clover, etc. 

 The leaves are divided into leaflets, each leaflet with its 



