98 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
quently that insect rarely alights on the —— but leaves them to the 
amply provided Humble Bee. I have met with a number of in- 
ae in vakch the rie was ee y ny ave A stinct green leaflets— 
with other modifications of the flower, which finely illustrated Goethe’s 
theory of retrograde cataran tide, "The nearly related Zigzag Clover 
medium), which has entire and spotless leaflets and larger, de — 
purple, and mostly stalked heads, is naturalized in E. Massachuse 
** Florets pedicellate in umbel-like round heads ; corolla white or rose- 
color; turning brownish in fading ; the short pedicels refleced when old. 
a , L. Stems creeping, diffuse ; leaflets roundish-obovate 
and aye ge , or almost obcordate, denti culate ; heads depressed-glo- 
n very long axillary peduncles ; legumes about 4-see ded. 
_ Creerine Trirotium. White Clover. Dutch Clover. 
Fr. Triolet. Tréfle blanche. Germ. Weisser-Klee. Span. Trebol blanco: 
Root perennial. Stem 4-12 or 15 inches long, smooth, a xadioating, diffusely 
branching from the base. Leaflets half an inch to an jee long ; iole 1 or 2-6 
or 8 inches long. of fi duncles fos which are acted 2-8 
pe 
and twelve inches in length. Corolla white, ba ere er becoming a pale dirty brown. 
a 34 - 34 of an inch long, torulose, 2 or 8-5-seeded . Seeds irregularly ovoid, reddish- 
rown 
Pastures, woodlands, &c., throughout the United States. Fl. May—September. Fr. 
July — October. + 
ate florets are somewhat asp ora ps 
ressed Chae or vertically flatted heads. 
open first, an successively reflexed,—so that, during habe process of 
flowering, th ar horizontally divided betw 
: ung or opening florets. species ryW. 
some years very abundant,—though rarely cultivated. Its flowers 
are a favorite resort of th Bee ; and the plant is esteemed, as 
ing an ex et cooler portions of 
in 1748, spoke of it as being abundant, here. TT. reflex’ L., 
(Buffalo ie se which as ascendi nd. very 
heads of red a 
= roduced, al species, are found in old Boas and 
along road-sides ; they have" both yeley. ower, Tih. Ore ced ant 
become chestnut-brown wi age, Viz. : a 
or Hop Clover), which is mostly erect, with | s all I from B.D “same 
