36 A FLORA OF GIBRALTAR AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 



Ornithoims repandus Poir. Dry gravelly or sandy places ' 

 local or rather rare ; 3-5. Annual, lower leaves simple, rest 

 pinnate, with the lower pair of pinnae large and stipuliform, 

 true stipules minute. III. i. Cork Wood Ci-ags ! Near Second 

 Pine Wood ! Almoraima ! Bonel's Farm ! 



0. scorjnoides L. Similar places and in cornfields ; locally 

 common ; 3-5. Closely resembling last, but leaves trifoliolate, 

 lowest pair stipuliform, the terminal very large. III. i. About 

 Pinar de los Bigotes ! 



0. ebracteatus Brot. Sandy fields; frequent; easily overlooked; 

 3-5. III. ! 



0. compressus L. Similar places ; very common ; 3-5. I. At 

 foot of Rock, Lem. II. ! III. ! 



0.roseuslj.{0.sativus'Qro\>.). Sandyplaces; very common; 3-5. 

 Pods straight, with contiguous joints, beak curved, by description 

 as long as last joint, but I find it usually twice as long. III. ! 



Var. macrorhynclms P. L., has beak 3-4 times as long as last 

 joint. III. i. Almoraima, Porta & Bigo. 



Var. isthmocarptis P. L. Pod much curved, joints separated 

 by a distinct isthmus, beak 3-4 times last joint. I. Uncultivated 

 sands at Gibraltar, Brouss. III. ii. Algeciras, Bev. 



Hedysarum capitatum Desf. Dry gravelly hills ; occasional 

 or locally common ; 4-5. Annual, with deep rose, not crimson 

 flowers. III. i. Opposite Francia's Farm ! Carteian Hills ! 

 Alcadeza Plain ! 



jff. coronarmm L. Fields and hills ; abundant in Spain ; 4-6. 

 I. Very rare, K. III. ! Certainly not abundant in Cork Woods, as 

 Debeaux reports ; I have not seen it there. 



H. humile L., var. majus Lge. {H. Fontanesii Boiss.). Bushy 

 places ; rare ; 3-5. Leaves much narrower, stipules connate. 

 III. i. Near San Roque, Boiss. 



Onohrychis eriopliora Desv. Sandy ground ; rare ; 4-6. Re- 

 sembles Hedysarum coronarium but smaller, with much smaller 

 narrower leaflets, and pod of one woolly joint. III. ii. S. de 

 Palma, B. & B. ii. or iii. Sands by Palmones River, B. £ B. 



Vicia sativa L. Bushy places ; frequent ; 3-5. A protean species, 

 not always easily separable from V. angustifolia. I. ! II. ! III. ! 



Var. macrocarpa Moris. Flowers 1 in., pods 2-2|- in. by 3-5 

 lines, prominently reticulate. Perez Lara says this is the most 

 frequent form, and it is the only one admitted by Debeaux, but I 

 have not identified it. III. Between the Neutral Ground and 

 Algeciras, K., D. i. Slopes of San Roque, ih. 



Var. cordata P. L. Lower leaves obcordate, upper bilobed, 

 flowers 6-7 lines, pods l|-2 in. by 2-3 lines, reticulate, but not 

 prominently. I think common. I.' Near WiUis's ! Mediter- 

 ranean Steps ! III. ii. S. de Palma, Bev. My 2012 from near 

 El Saladillo has very peculiar leaflets 1 in. by h in., with a long 

 cuspidate apex, not retuse. It resembles nothing I know. 



V. angiLstifolia Roth. Similar places ; frequent, but less so 

 than last; 3-5. Smaller in all its parts, with narrow more 

 cylindrical pods. III. ! 



