THE SHAMROCK 391 



Westmeath, Wexford, Limerick, Waterford, Cork 

 and Kerry. Medicago lupulina occasionally takes 

 its place in London, and, according to the Cybele 

 Hibernica (p. 73) is also sold as such in Dublin. 

 Probably the conclusion at which one must arrive 

 (from the overwhelming evidence of the use of 

 Trifolium minus throughout Ireland) is that this 

 plant, so far as can now be ascertained, is the true 

 Shamrock, but that other plants occasionally do 

 duty for it. 



Mr Nathaniel Colgan, one of the most accurate 

 of Irish Botanists, in \)i\^ Flora of the County Dublin 

 (1904), p. 307, says that White clover {Trifolium 

 repens) and the Lesser Yellow clover {T. dubium) 

 a:re almost equally in favour as the Irish national 

 badge. Mr Colgan uses Sibthorpe's name, T. 

 dubium, instead of T. mimts, of Smith, for the 

 Lesser Yellow clover. 



