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the remainder are too brown or discolored for one to be able to 

 tell their original color. 



If oil examination in the field the hairy plant proves to have 

 red flowers and the smooth plant yellowish flowers, we believe 

 that there are sufficient other differences in the structure of the 

 flower to »ive the variety specific rank. The name glabrum, 

 however, has been used in this genus for an European species. 



In Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric. Div. Agrost. 2: 48, we find the 

 following concerning T. reflex um: 



A native annual or biennial species with ascending downy 

 stems, oblong, finely toothed leaflets, and rcse-rcd flowers on 

 short stalks in a round, stalked cluster. The flowers are re- 

 flexed and brownish in fruit. Widely disseminated from west- 

 ern New York to Nebraska, Kansas and southward, and espe- 

 cially abundant in the middle prairie region, where it furnishes 

 a considerable amount of palatable and highly nutritions forage, 

 greedily eaten by all kinds of stock. It is a species which should 

 be brought into cultivation. 



Alabama 

 Specimens examined — 



Lee county: Auburn, Baker and Earle, April 17,1897. 



Arkansas 

 Benton county: Plank. 



Lincoln county: Varner, Bush r$; Fulton, Bush 244; Pres- 

 cott, Bush 24.8; Fayetteville, Harvey 22 ./?. 



Florida 

 Polk county: Ohlinger So. 



Georgia 

 De Kalb county: Stone Mountain, Eggert, May 22, 1897; 

 roadsides, Stone Mountain, Eggcrt, May 22, 1897. 



Experiment Station, Rugel 28; Rome, Cur/iss 6783; Bos- 

 sier, June 14, 1879. 



Kansas 

 Cherokee county: In woods, Hitchcock, 649. 



