ON THE FLORA OF TIREE 83 



[ULEX EUROP^EUS, L. On rocky pasture in the Manse field, 

 planted by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, a former parish minister 

 of Tiree. I was told that the present gamekeeper also intro- 

 duced the plant on an island in one of the lochs.] 



MEDICAGO LUPULINA, L. Locally very common ; sandy pastures 

 near Scarinish, where the plant is covered with whitish 

 pubescence. Where growing in loamy soil the plant is green. 



TRI FOLIUM PRATENSE, L. Common ; banks, roadsides, and culti- 

 vated fields. Has been sown as a crop with rye grass in Tiree 

 since about 1761 (Dr. John Walker, in "Economic History of 

 the Hebrides," 1812, who also mentions the plant as a native 

 constituent of sandy pasture fields in the Hebrides). 



TRIFOLIUM MEDIUM, L. Rare; side of ditch, Cornaig. 



TRIFOLIUM REPENS, Z. Very common over almost the whole 

 island. 



TRIFOLIUM DUBIUM, Sibth. Very common ; banks, pastures, and 

 sand dunes ; also common in cultivated fields. 



ANTHYLLIS VULNERARIA, L. Generally common and locally abund- 

 ant. Var. marititna, Koch (teste Ar. Bennett), on sand dunes, 

 Hynish Bay, rare ; growing with the type and apparently under 

 the same conditions. It is conspicuous by its size and the 

 number of heads on the stems and branches, the lower ones 

 being at some distance from the upper. 



LOTUS CORNICULATUS, L. Common ; the typical form is found 

 about sheltered banks, roadsides, and sides of cultivated fields. 

 The form with more thick and fleshy leaflets occurs among 

 rocks on the shore, as it does over all this part of the coast. 

 It seems to be the var. crassifolius of Syme in " English 

 Botany," ed. 3, but I hardly think it is worth varietal rank. 

 Another form, which I have seen only in Tiree, grows sparingly 

 in sandy pasture ; it is a small prostrate plant with small leaf- 

 lets, and with branches spreading in a circle, the base of the 

 stem and branches denuded of leaves for some distance, and 

 with the stems, leaves, and calyx covered with white woolly 

 hairs, giving the plant in its more marked forms a grayish 

 appearance. 



YICIA CRACCA, L. Rather rare ; sand dunes and cultivated fields. 

 On Hynish Bay sands it is somewhat dwarfed, with grayish 

 pubescent leaflets and short racemes. 



VICIA SEPIUM, L. Rare ; among rocks at Kenavara ; also in culti- 

 vated fields, where perhaps it is more common. 



LATHYRUS PRATENSIS, L. Common, plentiful locally; sides of 

 fields, roadsides, tops of walls. 



