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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT S'lV 1 ION. 



habitat, uses, and possibilities discussed. The most important kinds 

 are mentioned first in the list. The most commonly used name, so 

 far as can be determined, is given for each plant, followed by the scien- 

 tific name. 



CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 



The Clovers, Tri folium. The members of this genus found wild 

 in Maryland are nearly all natives of the Eastern hemisphere and in- 

 troduced by man into America, where they have run wild. Some are 

 well known cultivated plants, but frequently occur wild also. All are 



Fig. 13 — Alsike Clover — After cut in Bulletin of United States Department of 



Agriculture. 



recognized by the trifoliate leaves, the margins of which are finely 

 toothed, and the small flowers in close heads, bearing straight, unflat- 

 tened, one-seeded pods. The following clovers are wild in Maryland : 



Vello.iv clover, Trifolium aureutn. Usually about twelve inches 

 high, the flowers yellow ; the central one of the three leaflets not stalked. 

 Introduced into fields and waste places in Northeastern United States, 

 but not extending as far south as extreme Southern Maryland. Often 

 so abundant in Centra! Maryland as to form over half of the vegetation 

 of some old fields, and is considered of some pasture value on sandy 

 land. (Plate I. Figure 27). ' 



