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lium repens. White clover; White Dutch clover; Duteh clover; Creeping tri- 
folium; White trefoil; ih sod t in TM Honeysuckle; Honeysuckle grass; 
Hoticysdeklo clover; Sham (Fig. 52.) 
A smooth perennial, growing wild in New England and Europe, and now widely 
cultivated. The slender spreading and creeping stems are from 4 to 8 or 10 
inches long; the trifoliate leaves are on rather diag leafstalks; the flowers are 
w in loose heads an inch or less in Wan e on very 
long stalks. It grows on a great variety of soils, forming excellent turf either 
for pastures or lawns, and thrives under all sorts of hard usage. If sown alone 
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of grasses or other clovers. The forage, though produced in-small IS. is 
sweet and nutritious and eagerly sought for by all kinds of stoc 
FIG. 51.— Buffalo clover (Trifolium reflexum). G. 52.— White clover (Trifolium repens). 
Trifolium resupinatum. Reversed clover. 
An annual species, native of the Mediterranean region, similar to white clover in its 
manner of growth, and better adapted to warm regions than white clover. It 
has been introduced into and is largely grown in northern India as a pasture 
plant, and would be a valuable species to introduce for pasturage in the Southern 
States. 
i rubens. Reddish clover; also known in Germany as Red clover; Fox 
clover; Fox tail clover; Red goat clover; Red hare clover. 
A perennial species, cede had MAR . ener i appearance to crimson 
clover, but with purp It is cul- 
tivated for soiling purposes in the warmer e of Enrope, and, o less 
_ hardy than the crimson clover, would be a | he dl 
Southern States. ae 
