pulse Jfamil^. 



Yellow Clover. Irifolium agra/rium. 



Hop Clover. 



Found, during June and July, in dry fields and waysides. 



The stalk branches slightly, and is leafy ; it is slender, round, and 

 smooth, and grows from 6 to 12 inches high. The color is light green. 



The 3 leaflets of the compound leaf are long and narrow, with an 

 exceedingly fine texture and smooth surface. The leaves, on very 

 short stems, are placed in groups, or singly and alternately, upon the 

 stalk ; at the base of the stem, and uniting with it for half its length, 

 occur a pair of enfolding wings. 



The flowers are very small, and gathered into a close head, that is 

 set on a little stem growing from the angle of a leaf ; the corollas are 

 yellow, the minute calices being green. 



The flowers open from the bottom of the head upward, the mature 

 blossoms becoming dry and husky, and turning down after the manner 

 of the hop, as the bloom continues towards the summit; the heads 

 thus show a harmonious gradation of color from brownish-yellow at 

 the base, through yellow, to the yellow-green of the buds at the top 

 of the head. The plant often grows in clumps of a considerable size. 



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