. Annual white sweet clover and strains of the biennial form . in 1916. Tliewriters are indebted to Dr. Gernert for a reference to Gleanings inBee Culture, Decem-ber 15, 1916, wherethis observation isrecorded. There is no recordat the Iowa Agricul-t u r a 1 ExperimentStation showinc;where the originalseed out of which theannual variety wasselected was Illinois strainwas selected from alot of seed purchasedin Falmouth, Ky.,and reported to havebeen grown in Ala-bama. The plantsfound at Redfield andFargo were in platssown with seed fromAlabama. Mr. Coe describedthe annual variety,giving
. Annual white sweet clover and strains of the biennial form . in 1916. Tliewriters are indebted to Dr. Gernert for a reference to Gleanings inBee Culture, Decem-ber 15, 1916, wherethis observation isrecorded. There is no recordat the Iowa Agricul-t u r a 1 ExperimentStation showinc;where the originalseed out of which theannual variety wasselected was Illinois strainwas selected from alot of seed purchasedin Falmouth, Ky.,and reported to havebeen grown in Ala-bama. The plantsfound at Redfield andFargo were in platssown with seed fromAlabama. Mr. Coe describedthe annual variety,giving it the name ofMelUotus alha ^ and called at-tention to the botan-ical characters inw h i c h it differedfrom the biennialplant. The annual has asmaller, more woodyroot than the bien-nial form, and crownor resting buds arenot formed. () The stems,branches, leaves,flowers, pods, andseeds are indistin-guishable from those of the biennial form, but during the season of seed-ing the plant grows more rapidly, blossoms, fruits, and dies. (Fig. 2.). Fig. 2.—A group of annual white s\vt-cIover plants 4months after seeding. The plants vary in size anddevelopment. 6 Department Circular 169, U. S. Dept. of ANNUAL WHITE SWEET CLOVER. The seed of annual white sweet clover that has been sold so far andmost of that on the market during 1920 was produced from the Iowastrain. During the summer of 1920, however, interest in this varietywas aroused in Alabama, in Hale and Perry Counties, where it occurswith the biennial form, and some seed from that source will doubt-less be on the market later. It is not possible at present to place any limit on the range in whichannual white sweet clover may be growing wild. It has been foundchiefly in Alabama, but is also present in natural wild growths ofMelilotus alha about Washington, D. C. In waste places near thePotomac River in Virginia, just outside of Washington, there areconsiderable areas used as dumping places for
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