specimen pressed
no. 13 · h-coll.
a low clover whose curious habit is to grow four leaves more often than three. in the open it reverts to the common pattern; shut in by walls, by the absence of mowing, by the politeness of the people who pass through and never linger, it puts out the fourth.
luck does not seem to enter into it. it grows where it has been left alone, and so the people who find it tend to be themselves left-alone. seen in the small garden, between the flagstones of the corridor, and once in a particularly empty solitude. tolerated by silence.
field note — i counted nine plants. seven were four-leaved. of the others, one had five.