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Sun:niit, both places in Placer county California, and only a few 

 miles apart, are identical, I have no doubt, and am still more 

 positive that they do not belong to T. monanihum if the original 

 descriptions mean anything. My No. 6942, distributed as 

 ^'^Tri folium gemiiiiflontm Greene," should be corrected to read 

 Trifolium par7)um. It was obtained on the shores of Donner 

 Lake, only a short distance from Summit, but 1000 feet lower, 

 or at about the same elevation as Cisco. Dr. Kellogg gave a 

 ver}'- good and lengthy description of his plant, as he usually 

 did, but I shall not reproduce it here, as I am doing that else- 

 where. 



Trifolinni splendens 



Annual, growing in rosette-like tufts, composed of several 

 piai:ts, th.e whole cluster rarely rising more tlian i dm. above 

 the ground, glabrous throughout: stems several to many from 

 the root, and again branching above, 1-2 din. long, the outer 

 longer ones prostrate, the inner more ascending, rather slender, 

 purplish below, green or yellowish-green above: leaflets light 

 green, the lowest cuneate, retuse, very small, 2-3 mm. across, 

 the larger uppermost ones obovate-cuneate or sometimes inclined 

 to the elliptical, commonly rounded at the apex, 1.5 cm. long, 

 I cm. wide, all .spinulose dentate at the ends of the prominent 

 anastomosing veinlets; petioles all longer than the leaflets, those 

 of the middle p;:^rt of the stem thrice longer, those of the lower 

 and npper part usually about tv/ice longer; stipules rounded, 

 clasping tiie stem, about 5 mm. in diameter and 7 mm. high, 

 the lower adnate portion scarious, the upper more elongated part 

 green and irregularly lacerate with weak-.spiniilose teeth: heads 

 large, 2 cm. across, 1.5 cm. high, solitary, terminating the 

 branches on peduncles of 4-5 cm: involucre comparative!)- small, 

 3-4 mm. high, irregularly laciniate toothed, the teeth weak-spin- 

 ulose: calyx about 6 mm. long, glabrous, the pale tube about 20 

 striate, 2 mm. or slightly more in length, the purple tipped 

 lobei- about 4 mm. long, i mm. wide below, prolonged into an 



