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timber*!, angular-striate, pilose, especially towards the summit, somewhat branch" 

 cd. Leaflets 3 fourths of an inch to an inch and half long, and 1 third of an inch 

 to an inch wide, varying from oral to ovate-oblong, sub-rhomboid and lance-ovate, 

 entire, mostly obtuse, the oval ones emarginate, all subsessile, pilose bcneath % 

 smooth and green above, and generally with a jKiler sagittate or lunate spot in the 

 middle ; comnmn petioles half an inch to 4 or 5 inches long, the radical ones often 

 much longer; stipules membranaceous, nerved, with a subulate sub+pilose acu* 

 mination. Heads of flowers ovoid, or subglobose % an inch or more in diameter f 

 terminal, subsessile, in the bosom of 2 ojtposite subsessile trifoliate bracts {one of 

 the bracts sometimes with a single leaflet) with dilated stipules embracing the base 

 of the heal. CoroU* purple (sometimes white), the petals united into a slender tube 

 •bout haf an inch long, the vexillum striate with deeper purple veins. Legume 

 shorty included in the calyx, \ seeded* Seed subreniform* 



Hal>. Cultivated fields, and meadows : common. Fl. May- Sept. Fr. July-Otis. 



Obs. This is a most valuable plant ; and diligently cultivated by all good far- 

 mers. It is also extensively naturalized. In conjunction with the grasses, especi* 

 ally with Timothy (Phleum pratense).i7 makes first -rate hay. The seed is usually 

 sotrn in the month <rf Mavh, among wheat and rye, and is motcn the second year. 

 Authors generally consider this spot ies a perennial ; but a distinguished Agricut* 

 turist of New England asserts positively that it is biennial, — and my own obser- 

 vations in-line me to the same opinion. It is certain that a very large proportion 

 of the cultivated plants disappears after the second year ; and those which apparent- 

 ly remain may be only a succession of young plants, from fallen seeds. I perceive , 

 also, that Mr. Sinclair, in hie Hortus Gramincus, speaks of the red clover as a bi- 

 mnial. 



3. T. bbpbm, L. Stems creeping, diffuse; leaflets elliptic-ovate, or 

 roundish-obovate, somewhat retuse, denticulate ; stipules searious 

 lanceolate, mucronate ; heads depressed-globose, on very long axillary 

 peduncles; flowers pedicellate, finally rcflexed ; legume about 4-seeded 

 Keck, Hot. p> 80. 



Creeping Tripoli™. Vulgd— White Clover. Dutch Clover. 

 Cuff. Triolet Trifle blanche- Germ. Wcisscr Klee. Hi*p. Trebol bianco. 

 Root ; Perennial. Stem 4 to 12 inches long, lcr ete, smooth, procumbent, radica- 

 ls*, Jflfosely branching from the 1 ase. Leaflets half an inch U>an inch long, and 

 I third to 3 fourths of an Inch wide, mostly somewhat em., e, serrulate, or 



sharply denticulate, smooth, often with a pale lunate spot h iddle, all sub- 



sessile; common petioles I or 2 to 6 or 8 inches long; stipules .carious, veined 

 whitish, abruptly acuminate. Heals of flowers depressed.globose, or subcorym-' 

 hose, on erect, angul.r-.ulc.le axillary peduncles 2 or 3 to 8 or 12 inches lonT- 



w^sm^ f 22 ,0ng ! " meW,ml PUbCSCeiU ' —ing after flower^, S 

 tu£ur .m ^L ? r n ? VC Whhi8h (8 ™ eli ™« P^PIO brad at base. Calyx 

 ubular smooth, greenish white, the limb often purple betwee. the base of t£ 

 •egments ; segments subulate, unequal, the 2 upper ones rather longer. CoroiZ 

 whue, persistent becoming a palish dirty brown, and nerved. JgumeoSoa, 



Hob. Pastures; woodlands, Ax. very common. M. May-Sept FY. July-Octe. 



th^LJh 6 1)Vrer i f ov?ers °P^ ^st, and are reflexed in succession,-dividin* 

 £L - Z i hm " mMl * bel " ecn ** «™t and recurved flowers. Th^ c 2 

 msu to U common to Euro,, and America ; and the soil, in this cTuutry^^ 



