Fig 115. [White Clover. Trifolium repens] L.

White Clover. Trifolium repens L. Seeds scarcely shining, yellow to light brown, flattened, one of the rounded edges thinner than the other, and between the two a slight groove on each side, one end rounded, the other truncate with a slight depression in the center containing the seed scar 1.-1.2 mm. long to 1 mm. wide. The seeds that are truncate at one end are anatropous, some of them resembling those of red clover are half anatropous. Common and well known, possibly native to the northern country.

GERANIUM FAMILY. GERANIACEAE.

Fig 116. [Alfilaria. Storks-bill. Erodium cicutarium] (L.) L'Her.

Alfilaria. Storks-bill. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Flowers pink; achenes reddish brown, hairy, lance-shaped, the smaller end curved, hard, sharp, the larger end when mature bearing an awn spirally coiled for half its length, the sickle like apex turned to one side.

Achenes 5–6 mm. long, the coiled portion and cycle-like apex each 10–15 mm. long. True seed light brown, ovoid-lanceolate 2.5–2.7 mm. long. Introduced from Europe.