Recreations of a naturalist / [James Edmund Harting].

  • James Edmund Harting
Date:
1906
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Credit: Recreations of a naturalist / [James Edmund Harting]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Westmeath, Wexford, Limerick, Waterford, Cork and Kerry. Medicago lupulina occasionally takes its place in London, and, according to the Cybele Hibernica (p. 73) is also sold as such in Dublin. Probably the conclusion at which one must arrive (from the overwhelming evidence of the use of Trifolium minus throughout Ireland) is that this plant, so far as can now be ascertained, is the true Shamrock, but that other plants occasionally do duty for it. Mr Nathaniel Colgan, one of the most accurate of Irish Botanists, in his Flora of the County Dublin (1904), p. 307, says that White clover (Trifolium repens) and the Lesser Yellow clover (T. dubium) are almost equally in favour as the Irish national badge. Mr Colgan uses Sibthorpe’s name, T. dubium, instead of T. minus, of Smith, for the Lesser Yellow clover.
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