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1906] HOUSE—NEW SPECIES OF TRIFOLIUM 341 
a little shorter and broader than the others, all spinulose-acuminate: 
corolla a little more than twice the length of the calyx, white with a 
purple-tipped keel; banner narrowly oblong, about 10™™ long 
and 3.5 to 4.5™™ wide, deeply retuse at apex; wings and keel much 
shorter, the keel acute: legume 2-seeded. : 
Around springs and in natural moist meadows of the Sierra Nevada, Cali- 
fornia, from Nevada Co. to Acador Co., Yosemite Park, and Fresno Co., at 1500 
to 2100” alt. 
Nevada Co.: Soda Springs, Jones (no. 2592), July 30, 1881 (type of T. mul- 
ticaule, in U. S. National Herbarium); low ground on south side of Donner Lake, 
Heller (no. 6942), July 16, 1903. 
Amador Co.: Bear River, Hansen (no. 1968), Aug. 30, 1896. 
Yosemite Park: Hetch-Hetchy Trail, Hail and Babcock (no. 3385), July 
1902. 
Fresno Co.: Pine Ridge. Hall and Chandler (no. 256), June 15-25, 1900. 
Trifolium simulans, sp. nov.—Fig. 8.—Perennial from slender, 
branching roots; stems numerous, prostrate or ascending, slender, 
5 to 20° long, glabrous: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 10™™ long, 
green or the lower-ones subscarious, spinulose-acuminate, and with 
a few aristate tecth, 5 to 7-nerved; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, the 
middle one and often the others cuneate, 
irregularly spinulose-denticulate, mucronate- 
tipped at the acute apex, g to 14™™ long, 
2.5 to 5™™ wide; petioles filiform, 2 to 4 
as slender and-shorter than the petioles; in- 
volucre divided into 2 or 3 parts, these cleft 
again to make 5 to 7 narrow, spinulose-acu- 
minate, conspicuously nerved, simple or few- 
toothed segments to the entire involucre: 
calyx short-pedicelled, glabrous, about twice 
acuminate, 3 to 4™™ long, the lower slightly 
shorter: corolla very large for the size of the 
plant, white with a purple-tipped keel; ban- 
ner narrowly oblong, about 15™™ long, 5"™ Fic. 8—Trifolium simu- 
wide, retuse and mucronate at apex; wings Jans House. 
