136 LEGUMINOSAE 



3. Pang. lUley, Heweit, 18^0. Ashridge Wood. Tidmarsh. Moulsford. 



Purley. Tilehurst. Bucklebury. Reading. 



4. Kennet. Newbury. Woolhampton. Theale. 



5. Loddon. New Lock, Marlow, Mill. Wargrave, Melvill. Well. 



Coll. List. Ruscombe. Maidenhead. Cookham. Aston. Old 

 Windsor. 

 Melilotus officinalis occurs in all the bordering counties. The fragrance 

 of the leaves is due to the presence of coumarin. 



*M. arvensis, Wallr. Sched. Crit. 391 (1822). 



M. officinalis, Desr. in Lam. Enc. Meth. iv. 63 (1797, not of Lam. 



Fl. Fr. 

 Top. Bot. 109. Syme, E. B. iii. 32, t. 343. Nyman, 172. Fl. Oxf. 78. 

 Colonist. Viatical. Rubbish heaps, waste ground. In several 



scattered localities. A. or B. .July-September. 

 First record. M. arvensis. Chalk pit between Wargrave and Henley, 



Britt. Contr. 187 1. 



1. Isis. Near Wytham. 



2. Ock. Near Letcombe Castle, Bellamy. Didcot. Wantage Grand- 



pont. 



3. Pang. Railway near Reading. ^ 



4. Kennet. Newbury, 1891 



5. Loddon. Chalk pit between Wargrave and Henley, Britten. 



Near Windsor, one plant, Bolton King. Maidenhead. 



M. arvensis has been recorded for Oxfordshire, East Gloucestershire, 

 Surrey, Hants, and Wiltshire. 



In Index Xeivensis, M. officinalis is cited from Lamarck's F?. cle Franc, and 

 from Desrousseaux in the Etic. Meth. 



**M. ALBA, Desroiisseatix in Lam. Enc. Meth. iv. 63 (1797). JMiite Mclilot. 



M. leiicantha, Koch, DC. Fl. Fr. v. 790. 31. vulf/aris, Willd. Eniim. Hort. 

 Berol. 790. 



Top. Bot. 109. Comp. Cyb. Br. 140. Syme, E. B. iii. 31, t. 342. Nyman. 172. 



Fl. Oxf. 77. 

 Casual. Rare. A. or B. May-AxTgust. 

 First recorded by Mr. A. Grey in Wellington College List, 1874. 



2. Ock. SoiTth Hinksej^, The author in Fl. Oxf. icS86. By the railway 



near Maidenhead, very luxuriant, some specimens being over six feet 

 high. Didcot. 



3. Pang. In a field near the railway between Beading and Tilehurst. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, by the railway. 



Bucks and Ea3t Gloucestershire appear to be without records for this species. 



**M. iNDicA, All. Fl. Fed. i. 308 (1785). 



M. jKirviflora, Desf. Fl. Atl. ii. 192 (1800). {Trifolinm M. indica, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 765 (1753), is referred to 31. manritanica in Index Kewensis.) 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 498. Syme, E. B. iii. 33, t. 344. N3'man, 173. Fl. Oxf. 78. 

 Casual. Waste ground. Bare. A. July-August. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1890. 



