LATHYRUS 155 



Alien. This plant comes np periodically in cnltivated ground near Dor- 

 chester, and Mr. Bruce has seen it in a field at Burghfield. 



[V. HTBRiDA, Linn. Sp. PI. 737 (1753), not of Hudson. Syme, E. B. ii. 94, t. 391. 



Nyman, 209. 

 Casual. In a cultivated field near Chalfont, Bucks, Rev. F. Woods.] 



[V. LUTEA, Linn. Sp. PL 736 (1753). Nyman, 209. Syme, E. B. iii. 92, t. 389. 

 Has been found as a casual in Wiltshire.] 



[V. BiTHTNicA, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, 1166. Syme, E. B. iii. 99, t. 396. Is recorded 

 for Gosport in Hampshire.] 



LATHYRUS, Linn. Gen. n. 781 (Tournefort, Inst, t.216). 

 Ii. Aphaca, Linn. Sp. PI. 729 (1753). Yellow VeicMing. 



Aphaca, Ger. Em. 1250. 

 Top. Bot. 124. Syme, E. B. iii. loi, t. 397. Nyman, 204. Fl. Oxf. 86. 

 Native. Septal. Hedge-banks. Very local and rare. A. June-July. 

 First recorded by the author in the Rep. Bot Rec. Cli(h, 1881. 



3. Pang. On a hedge-bank near Moulsford. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, by the railway, TVeaver. Greenham, with 



other foreign species, .Jackson. (Casual in both of these localities.) 

 In a field at Burghfield, Bruce. 



5. Loddon. Near Sonning, 1892, Tufnail. 



Lathyrus Aphaca is recorded for all the counties bordering upon 

 Berkshire. 



Ii. Nissolia, Linn, Sp. PI. 729 ^1753). Grass Vetch, Crimson Vbtchling. 



Nissolia parva flore purpurea, Buxb. Cent. 3. 24. N. uniflora, Moench, 



JMeth. 140. 

 Top. Bot. 124. Syme, E. B, iii. 102, t. 398. Nyman, 204. Fl. Oxf. 86. 

 Native. Pascual. Grassy quarries, banks, &c. Very local. A. 



JMay-July. 

 First recorded by Mr, Baxter in Purton's Midlaiid Flora, 1821. 



1. Isis. Between the old and the new road to Eynsham, about half 



a mile from the bridge, Baxter, 1. c. 



2. Ock. Near old stone pits about half a mile S.W. from S. Hinksey, 



Baxter in Walk. Fl. Tubney, Walker. Foxcombe, fields below the 

 heath, Sister Jane Frances. Railway bank, Denchworth, Wait. 

 Wootton brick-pits, Fl. Oxf. Road near the Abingdon Water- 

 works. Stone-pits west of Wootton. 

 4. Kennet. Railway-bank near the mouth of the Kennet, Tufnail. 



Clay Hill, N.E, side of Newbury, .Jackson. 

 L. Nissolia is found in all the bordering counties. After the pods 

 have discharged the seeds each half of the pod becomes twisted in a 

 spiral manner. 



Ii. pratensis, Linn. Sp. PL 733 (1753). Meadow Vetchling. 

 L. sylvestris flore luteo, Ger. Em. 1231. 



