WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
apex. The margins and veinings are very similar 
to those of the Yellow Clover. The sweetly scented 
flowering heads usually occur in terminal pairs. They 
are oblong or cylindrical in shape, and the general 
colour is a beautiful pearl-gray tinted with pink. 
They are composed of numerous florets densely 
arranged in the exceedingly thick and downy plume 
which varies from one-quarter to an inch or so in length. 
The greenish-white corolla of the tiny floret is much 
shorter than the little green calyx, which extends its 
five remarkably long, feathery pink tips out of all 
reasonable proportion, to form the silky heads. The 
Stone Clover is a native of northern Asia. It blos- 
soms from May to September and is more or less 
common east of the Mississippi. 
WHITE, DUTCH OR HONEYSUCKLE CLOVER 
Trifolium répens. Pea Family. 
This is the commest of the white Clovers and is found 
everywhere in great abundance. It is extensively used 
for lawns and has been cultivated in some parts of the 
country where it is highly prized as a pasture for 
cattle. Bee-keepers claim that the sweetly scented 
flowers produce the choicest quality of white honey. 
It is generally supposed that this species is identical 
with the Shamrock of Ireland, although it is thought to 
be native to the northern United States and Canada. 
The leaf is commonly compounded of three parts or 
leaflets, but here and there a solitary leaf is occasionally 
found bearing four or more parts. The four-parted 
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