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Iowa 

 Clinton county. Butter, June 20, 1878. 



Johnson cou nly: Iowa City, Hitchcock, June 1, [889. 

 Iowa and Minnesota, Parry, 1847 and 1848. 



Kansas 

 ( nerokee conn I v. In woods, Hitchcock 6jy. 

 Osage county: Brown, June 5, 1897. 

 Republic county: Argeda, Doran, 1897. 

 Shawnee county. Topeka, Popenoe, June 12, 1877. 

 Wilson county: Roper, Hatter, May 26, 1896. 



Missouri 



Cass county: Gage of Prairie, C. C. />'., June 1, 1864. 



Illinois county: Horse Shoe Lake, Eggert, June 5, 1877. 



Jefferson county: Hematite, Eggert, May 25, 1896. 



St. Louis county: Crescent, Eggert, May 28, 1886; St. 

 Louis, Riehl 166. 



Columbia, Tracy, June 11, 1886; Eagle Rock, Bush 20J; 

 Watson, Bush 18 J. 



Nebraska 



Gage, Knight 190; Lincoln:/. G. Smith, July, 1S90. 



West Virginia 



Hanks of the Kanhawa, Buckley, June, 1838. 



S TriFOUUM VIRGINICUM Small, Mem. Torr. Club 4: 112. />/. 75. 

 [894. 



[This perennial is unique among the eastern native clovers 

 on account of its narrow leaflets and deep-seated, thick, branch- 

 ins roots. In the characters named it resembles certain far west- 

 eru species, notably /'. harneyense of Oregon and Nevada. To 

 the best of my knowledge, it has been collected only by myself 

 and Dr. Small, and is known only from the type locality, a dry 

 westerlv slope of Kate's Mountain, near White Sulphur Spring-', 

 West Virginia. It grows on an open gravelly slope, both trees 

 and shrubs being equally sparse in growth. The plant is dif-- 



