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name, it should be called a species d^ndi fully described instead 

 of being launched into the botanical worid equipped with little 

 else than a name. Many plants cannot be recognized by their 

 "descriptions" alone, for the chief characters are not mentioned, 

 only some of the minor ones; and of such so-called descriptions 

 we have not a few. 



Trifoliuin Grantianum 



Trifolium Tnonanthutn lenerum Faxish, Bot. Gaz. 38: 461 ^ 

 1904: not T. teherum Eastw. 



Perennial, matted caespitose from running rootstocks, glab- 

 rous throughout leaves generally longer than the internodes; 

 petioles filiform, longer than the leaflets, these obi anceolate or 

 cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, aristate-acuminate or 

 some truncate and slightly notched, conspicuously veiny, the 

 margins setosely serrulate; stipules lanceolate, adnate for barely 

 half their length, 8 mm. long or less, the larger over 2 mm, 

 wide, the lower adnate part either partly scarious or green, the 

 upper free part green, aristate pointed, margins entire: heads 

 commonly 2-flowered on filiform peduncles shorter than the sub- 

 tending leaf: involucre 2 mm. long of several lanceolate or ob- 

 long bracts barely united at base, the apex either simple or with 

 two or three short aristate teeth: calyx cylindrical or somewhat 

 campanulate, 4 mm. long, the tube 2 mm. long, more or less 

 membranous, veins prominent; the narrowly lanceolate teeth 

 aristate, green: corollas i cm. long, slender, 2 mm. across, whit- 

 ish, the hood of the keel purple. It has been impossible with 

 the means at hand to properly dissect the flower, but the several 

 parts are apparently destitute of the teeth and auriculations pres- 

 ent in T. teneriim. 



The type is Geo, B. Grant's no. 6343, collected July 23, 

 1904, on Mt. San Gorgonio, San Bernardino county, California, 

 distributed as Trifolium tenerum Eastw, But Miss Eastwood's 

 description in Bull. Torr. Club, 39: 81, 1902, shows a number 

 of differences, prominent among them being "canescent and 



