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P. paucifolia, Willd. Fringed Polygala. 



Faribault, Rice county, Miss Beanc. [Kaministiquia river, north of lake Superior, 

 3fac*/!',n, .] JSare. 



LEGUMINOS.^. Pulse Family. 



LdlPIXUS, Tourn. Lupine. 



li. jjerennis, L. Wild Lupine. Perennial Lupine. 



Coiiimou on light, sandy land from lake Pepia to the sources of the Mississippi riv- 

 er ; also. Fergus Falls, Leonard. Rarely found with white flowers. 



TRIFOLIUM, L. Ciover. 



T. ari-ense, L. Eahbit-foof or Stone Clover. 

 Saint Cloud, Stearns county, Camphell. Rare. 



T. pratense, L. Reel Clover. 



Frequently adventive throughout the state. 



T. repeiis, L. White Clover. Shamrock. 



Occurring like the last, already very abundant in many districts ; also quite cer- 

 tainly indigenous through the north half of the state, Clarl:, Upham . 



T. hi/hridum, L.* Alsike Clover. 



Adventive, but scarcely established, Saint Cloud (sandy soil, on the grounds of the 

 Normal School), Campbell. Rare. 



T.procumhens, L. Yelloiv Clover. Low Hop-Clover. 



Stearns county (both the type and the var. minus, Koch), Campbell; Saint Paul, 

 Minneapolis and lake Minnetonka (sparingly adventive), Roherts; lake Pepin, iHiss 

 Manmnf). Rare. 



MELilliOTUS, Tourn. Melilot. Sweet Clover. Hart's 



Cloyee. 



M. officinalis, Willd, Yellow Melilot. 



Goodhue county, Sandberg; Minneapolis (frequent), Roberts; Stearns county, Gar- 

 rison; Blue Earth county, ieiberf/. South. 



M. aJha, Lam. White Melilot. 



Throughout the south half of the state. More frequent than the preceding. 



MEDICAGO, L. Medick. 



M. satira, L. Lucerne. Alfalfa. 



Escaped from cultivation, Blue Earth county, Lcihcrg; Minneapolis, Winchell. 



*Trifolhimhijbridum, L. Almost glabrous; leaflets obovate or oblong ; stipules 

 oblong, tips triangular ; heads axillary, peduncled, globose; pedicels elongate, at 

 length reflexed ; flowers [whitish, rose-tinted] drooping ; calyx-tube campanulate, 

 gibbous ; teeth subulate, nearly equal, unaltered in fruit, Hooker's Students' Flora of 

 the British Islands. (See Botanical Gazette, vol. vii, pp. 121 and 135.) 



