BED MEADOW 

 CLOVEE. 



k Trlfolium pratense. Nat. Ord. t 



Leguminosce. 



EW of our plants probably will 

 be a more familiar wild flower 

 to our readers than the one 

 here figured, for it springs up 

 abundantly by almost every 

 road-side, and thrives in every 

 meadow. It may be looked 

 for if indeed such an ex- 

 pression be admissible in the 

 case of a plant that needs no 

 searching after from May 

 until September. Its specific 

 name, pratense, refers to its 

 home in the meadows and 

 pasture-lands; and in France, 

 too, it is the trefle cles pres. 

 Its Welsh name is Meillionen 

 ffoc/t. The common name, 

 trefoil, and the generic name, Trifolium, each testify to the 

 same habit of growth the combination of three leaflets 

 into one leaf. There are from fifteen to twenty species 

 of trefoil to be found in this country, of which half are 

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