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BIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
This plant, a native of Europe, is now completely naturalized in the 
neighbourhood of Charleston. It grows very luxuriantly, but no species 
of domestic stock appears willing to eat it. 
Grows in close soils. 
. Floweis April — May. 
I have among my specimens one collected in the state of New- York by 
Mr. Whitlow, with leaves nearly elliptical, flowers very small, whitish or 
white, and scattered along a very long raceme or spike, which appears to 
me evidently a distinct species. 
TRIFOLIUM. 
Legumen calyce 
tectum, evalve, 2 — 4 
spermum. Flores sub- 
capitati. 
1 . 
T. pusillum, pro- 
cumbens ; foliolis ob- 
cordatis, (supremis 
tantum emarginatis,) 
pilosis, dentatis ; sti- 
pulis bifidis, capitulis 
umbellaribus,peduncu- 
latis, reflexis,pauciflo- 
ris; corollis vix exser- 
tis ; leguminibus 3 — 
4 spermis. 
Gen. Pl. 1211. 
Pod covered with 
the calyx, without 
valves, 2 — 4 seeded. 
Flowers generally in 
heads. 
Mich. 
Small, procumbent ; 
leaflets obcordate, (the 
upper only emargi- 
nate,) hairy, toothed ; 
stipules 2- cleft; heads 
or umbels peduncu- 
late, reflected, few 
flowered ; corolla 
scarcely exserted : 
pods 3 — 4 seeded. 
Carolinianum. 
Mich. 2. p. 58. Pursli 2. p. 4 77. 
T. repens ? Walt. p. 183. 
Root somewhat fusiform, probably perennial. Stem divaricate, pros- 
trate, assurgent at the summit, hairy, 3 — 10 inches high. Leaflets ternate, 
slightly glaucous underneath, 3 — 5 lines long, 3 — 4 wide, on petioles 1 — 
2 inches long. Stipules 2 at the base of each petiole, obliquely lanceo- 
late, acuminated, toothed, with the nerve divided at the summit. Flow- 
ers numerous, (l6 — 20) on small umbels, erect when expanded, after- 
wards reflected, the common peduncles terminal and axillary ,2 — 3 inches 
