LOTUS 145 



Meadows, on gravel ballast, Tufnail. Shefford. Woolley Park. 

 Gibbet Hill, 900 feet. Newbury. Englefield. Hungerford. 

 Plentiful on the chalk. 

 5. Loddon. Frequent at Wargrave and Hurley, Mr. Stanton. Quarry 

 Woods. Maidenhead. Bray Wick, in a gravel pit, abundant. 



Almost wholly absent from the Bagshot beds. 



On the Compton Downs and on the White Horse Hill the red- 

 flowered variety occurs occasionally. It is not the extreme form, 

 which perhaps alone should be called var. coccinea, Linn. FI. Suec. 

 ed. 2, 250 (1775). 



The distribution of AnthijJUs is very similar to that of Clematis, except 

 that this is a plant of open sunny situations. It is a characteristic 

 plant of calcareous soils. 



Anthyllis occxu's in all the bordering counties. 



LOTUS, Linn. Gen. n. 803 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 227). 



Ii. coruiculatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 775 (1753). Bird's-foot Trefoil. 



Lotus coruiculatus glabra minor, J. Bauhin, Hist. ii. 356, in Ray, Syn. 



Top. Bot. 115. Syme, E. B. iii. 65, t. 368. Nyman, 183. Baxt. t. 249. 



Curt. Fl. Lond. ii. t. 56. Fl. Oxf. 82. 

 Native. Pascual. Pastures, roadsides, sunny banks, chalk downs, 

 commons^ &c. Very common and generally distributed, occurring 

 in the turf of the public gardens in Reading. P. May-September. 

 First record, Sonning, Mr. S. Ruclge, Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. L. comicu- 

 latus, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1802. 



Lotus corniculatus occurs under several modifications. The chief of 

 these is a glabrous form, which is much the more common plant. In 

 dry situations it becomes much stunted, and the flowers are often 

 either tinged with crimson or almost wholly of a crimson colour (var. 

 Tubrifloriis, Lamotte, Fl. du Plateau, 208), and the leaves are more 

 coriaceous, but not quite as fleshy as in the var, cbassifolius, Pers, 

 Syn, ii. 354, a plant of maritime localities. 



Var. INCANUS, S. F. Gray, Nat, Arr. ii. 607 (1821) = var. villosus, 

 Seringe, and L. corniculatus minor foliis subtus incanis, Ray, Syn. 334 

 (1724), is a much scarcer form, which has been seen at Cothill, 

 Didcot, Hinksey, Catmore, and Frilford. 



Var. ciLTATTJS, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 177 (1837), which is ciliated 

 rather than pubescent, I have seen at Twyford, Moulsford, Boar's 

 Hill, and in other localities. 



A luxuriant plant, found occasionally in rich pastures, is/, campestris, 

 Clavaud. 



L. corniculatus occurs in all the bordering counties. 



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