YELLOW CLOVER 



ture, with the past folded away. Equipped for life, 

 it lives. 



The Alsike is the beauty of the family. A late 

 comer, a hybrid believed to be the product of the union 

 of Red and White, it retains the stem system of the 

 Red in a more delicate form and the flower-head of 

 the White in pinker color. Alsike is the name of a 

 town in Sweden, the Clover is often called Swedish 

 Clover. It was brought to this country to be used on 

 sick soil, cold wet lowlands, and was satisfactory there, 

 but the plant has disregarded meadow bounds and 

 has gone gypsying to the highways on its own account. 

 It has entered the city enclosures, and in neglected 

 suburbs may often be seen flourishing contentedly 

 between the curb and the sidewalk. It, too, is a peren- 

 nial. 



YELLOW CLOVER 



Trifdlium aureum 



Annual. Naturalized from Europe. Along roadsides 

 and waste places. Nova Scotia to Virginia and west- 

 ward. May-September. 



Stems. — Six to eighteen inches high, slender and leafy, 

 more or less hairy. Growing in tufts and forming a 

 large, loose, spreading group of flowering stems. 



Leaves. — Alternate, compound, petioled; stipules acu- 

 minate and joined to the petiole for about one-half their 

 length. Leaflets three, sessile, delicate, obovate, finely 

 denticulate, narrowed at the base, rounded or notched 

 at the apex. 



Flowers. — Papilionaceous, golden yellow, in a many- 

 flowered, oblong head, after fertilization reflexed. Stand- 

 ard, wings, and keel grown together; standard conspic- 

 uously straight, drying pale brown. Pod one-seeded. 



89 



