160 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



not always have eight petals, as their name would indicate, 

 but may be found with from six to twelve on a single 

 flower. The name Dry as is from the Latin, signifying " a 

 wood-nymph," and certainly the velvety petals of this 

 dainty plant, growing amid a mass of silver-backed leaves, 

 are sufficiently exquisite to warrant the appellation. 



WHITE CLOVER 



Trifolium repens. Pea Family 



Perennial, branching at the base, rooting at the nodes. Leaves: 

 long-petioled ; stipules narrow, lanceolate ; leaflets obcordate, denticulate. 

 Flowers: white or pinkish, in loose, globose long-peduncled heads; 

 calyx teeth acuminate. Fruit: pods four-seeded. Not indigenous. 



This Common or Honeysuckle Clover is widely dis- 

 tributed. It may be quickly recognized by the fact that the 

 leaves all grow on long stalks directly from the root. This 

 is an introduced plant. 



Tri folium hybridum, or Alsatian Clover, is much taller 

 and has numerous leaves growing up on its flower-stalks. 

 The latter species is frequently pinkish in hue. 



Clovers have a very close association with our childhood, 

 those happy bygone days when we plucked out single flowers 

 from the rounded heads and sucked the slender tubes of 

 nectar; and always the sweet scent of the Clover blossoms 

 recalls to us the well-remembered fields where 



" South winds jostle them, 

 Bumble-bees come, 

 Hover, hesitate, 

 Drink, and are gone." 



This is an introduced plant. 



