MEDICAGO 133 



First record. Tri/oHum Ornithopodii siliqiiis. Bird's Foot Trefoil. Also 



near Oxford in the like ground [among the corn], Bay's Cat. ed. 2, 



291, 1677. T. meUlotus ornithopoicles, Dr. Noehden. Mr. Bicheno, 



Greenham Heath, flavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



4. Kennet. Greenham Common, Mr. Bicheno. I saw it there iii 



1893. 

 The plant was probably inserted in Ray's Ckdalogus on the authority 

 of Mr. Willisel, and the record is repeated in the Stirpium and Synoijsis, 

 and by Hudson, Gough, Martin. Smith, and other writers ; but no 

 botanist, as far as I can discover, has observed the plant in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Oxford since Kay's time, and it has not been reported for 

 Bucks or East Gloucestershire, but is recorded for Surrey, Hants, and 

 Wiltshire. 



**T. PoENUM-GRAECTJM, Linn. Sp. PL 777 (1753). Fenugreek. 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 498. Nyman, 170. 



Casual. Waste ground at Grandpont and Didcot. 



**T. CAKRULEA, SeriiigB in DC, Prod. ii. 181 (1825). 



Trifolium M. caerulea^ Linn. Sp. PI. p. 764 (1753). Nyman, 171. 

 Casual. Waste ground at Newbury Station, Weaver. Grandpont. Didcot. 

 Greenham. 



**T. Besseriana, Seringe, 1. c. Reichb. Ic. PI. Crit. iv. f, 525(1826). Nyman, 171. 

 Casual. Waste ground, Newbury, Weaver. Didcot. Greenham. 



Eeiclienbach treats this as a variety of the former species ; it differs from 

 it by its laxer head of flowers and much narrower leaves, which are morn 

 sharply auriculate ; also by the narrower stipules and straighter beak of the 

 fruit. 



MEDICAGO, Linn. Gen. n. 805 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 231). 

 *M. sativa, Linn. Sp. PI. 778 (1753 . Lucerne, Purple Medick. 



Medica sativa, Lugd. Medica, Pliny. 

 Cyb. Br. i. 283. Syme, E. B. iii. 21. t. 334. Baxt. t. 329. Nyman, 



166. Fl. Oxf. 76. 

 Denizen. Fields, waysides, railway-banks, &c. P. May-September. 

 First record. M. sativa, Dr. Noehden. Highly deserving of cultivation, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



2. Ock. South Hinksey. Wootton. Abundant by the railway at 



Didcot, and varying from pale to deep blue. Wantage. 

 Abingdon. Upton. 



3. Pang. Moulsford. Basildon. Ilsley. Sulham. Purley. Fril- 



sham. Yattendon. 



4. Kennet. Newbury. Shefford. Sulhampstead. Theale. Beading. 



W. Ilsley. Woolhamjiton. 



5. Lioddon. Near Wellington College, Penny. Wargrave, Britt. 



Contr. Near Henley, Stanton. Maidenhead. Twyford. Old 

 Windsor. 



