562 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Naturalized from Europe. From Canada to the Gulf, west to Louisiana and 

 Nebraska. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Roadsides, waste places, pastures, in damp 

 rich soil. Flowers white. April to June; common. Perennial. 



Economic uses : Valuable for pasture. Fine bee plant. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europae pascuis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trifolium resupinatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 108<>. 1753. 

 EUROPE. 



ALABAMA: Adveutivewith ballast. Mobile. June, 1887; not observed of laic years. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Anglia,Italgio." " 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Trifolium procumbens L. Sp. PI. 2 : 772. 1753. Low YELLOW CLOVER. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 129. Chap. Fl. 91. 



EUROPE. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Introduced and fully naturalized from Canada 

 along the coast to upper districts of South Atlantic and Gulf States west to Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Copses, border of woods, roadsides. Madison 

 County, Huntsville. Franklin County, Russellville. Flowers yellow, May, June. 

 Frequent. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae campestribus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trifolium dubium Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 231. 1794. LKSSKK YKLLO w TREFOIL. 



Trifolium minus Smith, Engl. Bot. 1. 1256. 1799. 



T. procumbens var. minus Koch, Fl. Ger. ed. 2. 195. 1843. 



EUROPE. 



Carolinian area. Sparingly naturalized. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metaraorphic hills. Cultivated ground. Leo County, 

 Auburn (Earle 4' Underwood). Flowers yellow, March, April. Rare. Annual. 



Type locality : "Meadows pastures/' Oxford, England. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LOTUS L. Sp. PL 2 : 773. 1753. HORNED CLOVKU. 

 (HOSACKIA Dongl. ; Benth. Bot. Reg. 15 : under /. 1257. 1829.) 



About 100 species, of temperate regions Europe. North America., chiefly western, 

 about 30. 



Lotus americanus (Nutt.) Bisch. Litt. Ber. Linnaea, 14 : 132. 1840. 



AMERICAN HORNED CLOVER. 



Trigonella americana Nutt. Gen. 2 : 120. 1818. 



Lotus sericeus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 489. 1816. Not DC. 1813. 



Hosackia pnrsliiana Benth. Bot. Reg. 15 : under t. 1257. 1829. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 75. 



Widely distributed west of the Mississippi to the Pacific and from the upper Mis- 

 souri to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with wool from the Southwest near the site of an old woolen 

 mill at Prattville. June, 1880. Annual. 



Type locality: "On the dry and open alluvial soils of the Missouri, from the 

 river Platte to the mountains." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lotus corniculatus L. Sp. PI. 2 : 775. 1753. COMMON HORNED CLOVER. 



Adventive from Europe with ballast. Mobile, June, 1888. Perennial. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Europae pratis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PSORALEA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 762. 1753.' 



About 100 species, perennials, temperate and warmer regions of Hie globe. South 

 Africa. North America, 30. Eastern States, 10. 



Psoralea pedunculata (Mill.) Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 114. 1849. 

 Hedysarum pedunculatum Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 17. 1768. 



1 Anna M. Vail, A study of the genus Psoralea in America, Bull. Torr. Club, vol. 21, 

 pp. 91 to 119. 18U. 



