646 
min’ima, 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Medicago. 
wards the top ; wreathes flat ; prickles expanding, hooked at the 
ends. Linn. Stem 4- cornered, with long whitish hairs below, 
smooth above. Leaf-stalks cylindrical, channeled, hairy in like 
aly on the sea shore, Ww Sy in Mr. Crowt.— 
ows near the Hotwells, Bristol, Mr. Swaynt. —West of 
Bridport plentiful. } A. May, June. 
Var, 2. & enon Fruit-stalks mostly 2-flowered : lower le- 
bys 
gumens spirally wreathed, thorny, the upper somewhat bowe#- 
prmketie 
t does not appear e may how ‘ier chia pine t of “Mr. Hi Hed. 
son’s differs from the preceding. ; 
Near Charlton in Kent. A. May. 
M. Legumens ene 3 on a fruit-stalk : prickles hooked : 
stipule enti 
H. ox. ii. 15. row 2. 15=F. Be ii. “386. b.-Riv, tetr. 88; 
Cochleata, row 4. f. 4, ech. min.-F. B. it. 386, 2. a 
Park. 1115.7. a—Fl. dan. 211. 
Legumens several, scarcely larger than the seeds of Orobus 
the spirals rough with thorns, bowed back —— ie 
INN. 
old shell as represented in F. B. ii. 386. 2. a; fie ing ‘deep, 
white, tough, of the size of small twine, with a few stiff fibres. 
ig ie upwards, with strong rib nating in sef- 
ratures, notched at the end with an intermediate rojecting piu 
Fruitcstalls as long as. the leaves. Flowers from 1 to 6, in a 
loose head, Fight u a) icles. .Ca/. teeth 5, awl- ap 
as long as the body of the c oid small, pale yellow. Les 
i - Woo 
y places, but rather rare. Ee —[Na arborough, neat 
Swaffham, recs rte in a very light sand. A. Mr. Woopwaro.] 
