WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
one is universally known as the “four-leaf Clover” and 
is popularly accepted as a token of good luck. A 
diligent search will seldom fail to find one or more of 
them in a healthy patch of Clover foliage. The earliest 
primary school song I remember learning had much 
to do with directing my mind to appreciate the glories 
of Nature: 
“Down among the meadow grass, 
Searching it all over, 
What a merry band are we, 
Hunting four-leaf Clover.” 
June finds this Clover at the height of its floral activity, 
and the bees fairly swarm over the blossoms from day- 
light to dusk. The slender, light green stalk is spread- 
ing and creeping. As it extends, long, delicate leaf and 
flower stems spring upright therefrom at short intervals, 
forming dense mats of medium green flecked with white, 
that are very pleasing. The stalk often takes root at 
the sheathed nodes, or joints. It grows from four to 
twelve inches long. Three rounding oval or inverted 
heart-shaped leaflets with narrowing bases, which unite 
at the tip of the slender stem, form the compound leaf. 
Their margins are finely toothed and their surfaces are - 
usually marked with a whitish or grayish green tri- 
angular or broad V-shaped band, the angle of which 
points toward their apex. The midrib is strong, and 
the feathery veinings show on the under side. Clover 
flowers are botanically known as pa-pil-i-on-a-ce-ous, 
that is, they are butterfly-shaped. The beautiful Sweet 
Pea of our gardens is a clever illustration of this curious 
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