488 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



clover, is more nourishing and better digested, and less exhaustive 

 to the soil. Dressing with gypsum vastly enhances the value and 

 productiveness of any clover-field. Fresh wood-ashes are for the 

 same purpose recommendable [Dr. Stebler]. Important as a bee- 

 plant. 



Trifolium resupinatum. Limit'. 



The annual Strawberry- Clover. From South-Europe and North- 

 Africa to Persia ; also in the Canary-Islands and Azores. Admitted 

 here, though annual, as this clover is cultivated with predilection 

 in Upper India, also in Afghanistan ; it is quite a useful pasture- 

 plant, though small, closely cropped by herds and flocks, and then 

 continuous in growth ; easily naturalised. Headlets of flowers 

 conspicuously produced. Mr. Stuart Reid observes, that it wiU 

 live through drought and floods. 



Trifolium spadiceum, Linne. 



Brown Clover. Europe, Western Asia. Perennial. This has 

 been recommended for wet sandy moorland, on which it gets 

 disseminated with readiness. 



Trifolium subrotundum, Hochstetter. 



The Mayad-Clover. Northern and Middle Africa, ascending to 

 9,000 feet. A perennial species, in its native countries utilised with 

 advantage for clover- culture. 



This by no means closes the list of the clovers variously desirable 

 for introduction, inasmuch as about 150 well-marked species are 

 recognized, many doubtless of value for pasture. But the notes of 

 rural observers on any of these kinds are so sparingly extant, that 

 much uncertainty about the yield and nutritive value of various kinds 

 continues to prevail. Most clovers come from the temperate zone 

 of Europe and Asia ; only two are indigenous to the Eastern of the 

 United States of North-America, none occur in Australia, few 

 a,re found in South -Africa, a good number in California and the 

 adjoining countries, several also in Chili, no species is peculiar to 

 Japan. 



Triglochin procera, E. Brown. 



Widely distributed through Australia. This remarkably large 

 perennial is worthy of dissemination in and around swamps, as 

 cattle feed on it with avidity ; it produces small edible tubers. 



Tris onella Fosniim G-raecum, Linne. 



Countries on the Mediterranean Sea, Western and Central Asia. 

 The seeds of this annual herb find their use in veterinary medicine. 

 The foliage used in some oriental countries as a culinary vegetable. 



