WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
and irregularly constructed blossom. Of course, they 
are necessarily greatly reduced in size and more or less 
modified otherwise in the Clovers, since so very many 
are crowded on the flowering head where they are 
known as florets. In the present species, these florets 
are white, cream white, or frequently pinkish. They 
are set erectly in small, five-parted, light green calyces 
on small stemlets. As they fade, they become brown- 
ish and husky, and turn flaringly downward, separating 
the head for a time in two parts, the quick from the dead, 
until finally all become reflexed, while the seeds ripen. 
The White Clover is very common everywhere in fields 
and along roadsides, but more so east of the one- 
hundredth meridian. It is quite possibly a native well 
north, as itisin Siberia. It blooms from May to Decem- 
ber. In England it is known as Sheep’s Gowan, 
Honey Stalks and sometimes Shamrock. 
WHITE MELILOT. WHITE SWEET CLOVER. 
HONEY-LOTUS. TREE CLOVER 
Melilotus alba. Pea Family. 
Great armfuls of the White Sweet Clover are gathered 
annually because of the delightful fragrance of its 
leaves, which becomes more pronounced as they dry 
out and emit their pleasing odour in our rooms and 
closets. I have never heard of these leaves being 
used as a tea, but have often thought that I should like 
to try them — their fragrance is so refreshing. The 
dried leaves have been used like camphor, as a pre- 
ventative for moths in packing away furs and woollens, 
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