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MELILOTOS Juss. M. officinalis (L.) Lam. Yellow Melilot. Ohio: near Wheeling (Mertz & Guttenberg). M. alba Desv. White Melilot. Sweet Clover. Bokhara Clover. Roadsides and ditches. Jackson : near Sandyville. Wood : near Parkersburg. Monongalia : near Morgantown. Berke ley : near Martinsburg. Jefferson : near Summit Point, and Shenandoah Junction Mason : near Pt. Pleasant. Mineral : near Keyser. Hardy : near Moorefield.

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TRIFOLIUM L. arvense L. Rabbit-foot Clover. Established in many places along roadsides and in old fields. Kanawha : near Pocotaligo. Jackson : along C. & P. Pike. Mineral: near Keyser (Workman). Cabell: near Barboursville (James). Jefferson : near Charlestown. Hamp shire : near Romney. pratense L. Red Clover. A common escape to fields roadsides, and open woods; even in the higher Alleghenies. With pure white flowers. Randolph: near Pickens (H. H. Smith, 1367). VirginicUM Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:112 (1894) Tab. 75. Perennial from a large and long root, diffusely branched from the summit of the root ; branches 2 to 4 cm. long, strict ly prostrate, pubescent; leaves 3-foliate, petiole 4 to 8 cm. long ; leaflets linear, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, I to 4 cm. long, acute or cuspidate, serrate-dentate, glabrous above, more or less silky beneath, conspicuously veined ; sepals ovate, conspicuous; inflorescence in terminal, globose heads, about 2.5 cm. in diameter; flowers whitish, more or less, crowded on slender pedicels. .2 to .4 cm., standard emarginatemucronate, striate ; calyx ciothed with long silky hairs, the teeth subulate, nearly half the length of the corolla. Pods and seeds not seen. Growing on the rocky slopes of Kate's Mountain, Green brier County, in company with Clematis ovata (Small; Mac kenzie; Heller, 843). This species is most closely related to T. stoloniferum by its flower, but in all other respects it differs from that and all the other eastern American species. repens L. White Clover. Fields, open woods, and waste places : common throughout the State.