2i OCCUUUENCK OF MEDICAGO LATPACEA IN nEDFOUDSIIlRE. 



I may take this opportunity of recordinfi; a fi'W other species, whicli 

 I have recently met with in the same county, but which have not, I 

 believe, been previously published for Bedfordshire. 



Papaver Lecoqii. About Dunstable. P. Lamottei has been 

 observed in the same neighbourhood by the Rev. W. W. Newbould, 

 and I have seen the two plants growing together, but keeping well to 

 their distinctive characters, in the immediately adjacent district of 

 Herts. P. Lecoqii is possibly the commoner species in Beds, but I 

 have notices of the existence of both in several widely separated 

 localities. Two of the distinct f(jrms included under P. Rhccm occur 

 also in the Dunstable district. 



Neslia paniculata. Potato field near Dunstable ; I suppose a mere 

 casual, 



Arenaria sph(xrocarpa, and A. leptoclados. Both probably common 

 in the county ; the former also in cornfields. 



Sagina apetala {vera). Walls at Luton and New Mill End ; and 

 seemingly not uncommon generally. 



Melilotus arvensis. Waste ground at Luton, a single specimen, 

 probably only a casual. It is, however, abundant in parts of Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and in the adjoining districts of Herts and Essex, and this 

 may turn out to be the case also in Beds. In north-east Herts it 

 seems to be quite well established as a weed of arable land, and is as 

 wild-looking as the Poppies. It would appear to have much bi'tter 

 right to a place in the list than M. alba, which is with us nowhere 

 permanent, and whose localities are always far more suspicious. Tri- 

 folium incarnatum occurs also about Luton, undoubtedly as a waif from 

 cultivation. 



Rubus leucostachys. Hedges near Caddington. 

 R. rudis. Hedge near Stockwood. 



Poterium muricatum. Sides of fields at Dunstable, and abundant 

 and apparently quite established on railway banks south of Luton. 



Cratagus taciniata (cfr. a paper by Mr. Hobkirk, Naturalist, vol. iii., 

 p. 80). Open hedgerows near Dunstable. 



Callitriche vernalis. River Lea, above Luton ; not in fruit, but 

 probably this species. The C. verna and C. autumnalis of Abbot's 

 Flora, from the figures quoted, represent in all probability C. platy- 

 carpa and hamulata, both of which have been noticed by Mr. New- 

 bould in the county. 



Linaria vulgari-repetis. Railway embankment at Luton, in com- 

 pany with L. vulgaris and a profusion of Z. repens. The seeds are 

 apparently perfect. 



Vcro7iica polita. Dunstable. 

 V. Buxbaumii. With the last. 



Polygonum maculatum. On soil taken from the Lea at Luton ; very 

 large plants. 



P. aviculars, microspernmm, and rurivagum. About Luton, Cad- 

 dington, &c. 



Carex paludosa. Stotfold. This is, however, probably C. acuta of 

 Abbot's Flora, and perhaps also of " Newbould cat.," in "Topo- 

 gra hical Botany," where C. paludosa is not given for Beds. 

 Rumex conglomeraUis. Near Luton. 

 Myriophyllum spicatum, the true plant, and Ccratophyllum aquati- 



