156 LEGUMINOSAE 



Top. Bot. 125. Syme, E. B. iii. 104, t. 400. Njmian, 202. Fl. Oxf. 86. 

 Native. Pratal. Meadows, pastures, hedges, and banks. Common 

 and with a general distribution except on the dry upper chalk 

 downs and the dry heaths of the south-west. P. June- Sept. 

 First record. L. pratensis. Tare everlasting, Dr. Noehden. Sometimes 

 cultivated, but not found very productive or grateful to cattle, 

 Mavor's Agr. Berkfi, 1809. 

 The plant varies from a nearly glabrous state to a veiy hairy form. 

 Var. viLLOsus, Schleich. in Gaud. Fl. Helv. iv. 491, is the very hairy 

 form which has been found by the side of the railway between Oxford 

 and Kennington, &c. 



Var. GRANDiSTiPULATUs, Koch in Keichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. xxii. 

 t. 2258, is a rare form in w^hich the adult plant has stipules as large as 

 the leaflets. In the young state of L. pratensis the stipules are so much 

 developed as to somewhat resemble L. Aphaca. 



L. pratensis is found in all the bordering covinties. 



**Ii. LATiFOLius, Linn. Sp. PI. 733 (1753). Everlasting Pea. 



Syme, E. B. iii. 107, t. 403. Baxt. t. 117. Fl. Oxf. 85. Nyman, 201. Alien. 

 1. Isis. In Tubney Wood, about six miles from Oxford, Miss Hoskins, in 

 Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 117, 1834. (I think that this record must be an error, 

 for I have never found anything in Tubney Wood but L. sylvestris. The 

 flowers there are of a somewhat brighter hue than usual. ) 



3. Pang. Side of the railway near Pangboxirn, Holland. 



4. Kennet. About Southcote House, as a relic of the old garden. 



5. Loddon. Quite naturalized and plentiful on the railway-banks between 



Maidenhead and Cookham. 



Ii. sylvestris, Linn. Sp. PI. 733 (1753}, and of Dodoens. Wild Ever- 

 lasting Pea. 



Top. Bot. 125. Syme, E.B. iii. 106, t. 402. Baxt. t. 433. Nyman, 201. 

 Fl. Oxf. 85. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, and hedges. Local. P. June- 

 September. 



First record. Near Oxford, Sir Joseph Banks, Herb. Brit. Mus. 1770. 

 Bagley Wood, Mr. Baxter in Purt. Midi. Fl. 1821. 



1. Isis. Tubney, Miss Hoskins, under the name of L. latifolius. 



Wytham, Boswell. Tubney Wood, plentiful. 



2. Ock. Near Oxford, Banks. Bagley Wood. Hedge near South 



Hinksey, Baxter, 1. c. Tubney, Walker. Near the Fox public- 

 house on Boar's Hill. In a Copse near the Brickyards on 

 Boar's Hill. 



3. Pang. Ashridge Wood, Hewetfs Hist. Great Western West 



Junction and Roebuck Cutting, Reading, Holland. 



4. Kennet. Newbury, 1866, Mrs. Cecil's Herb. 



5. Loddon. Crazey Hill, Stanton. 



In Wytham, Ashridge, and Tubney woods the plant is very 



