LEGUMINIFERiE. 83 



c. I. Seaton, on a low cliff. Plentiful in certain places on the cliffs 

 immediately east of Port Wrinkle ; also occurring on a bank 

 behind the \allage. 

 II. Near Maker Fort, associated with Lotus hispidus. 

 D. III. Bank above the Tamar at Holes Hole, in plenty, 1876. A few 

 plants by the roadside between the Plymouth and Saltash 

 Road and Bull Point ; probably introduced, 1879. 

 IV. Hoe ; unrecorded at Plymouth until discovered last season by a 

 friend ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. ! 1880. [A few plants near 

 Longbridge, 1868.] 

 V. Rather sparingly between the Yealm Ferry and tlie village of 

 Newton Ferrers, 1875. 

 There is no record for District vi. This plant is unquestionably in- 

 digenous on the sea cliffs. 

 First record : K^eys, 1846. 



172. M. maculata, Sihth. Spotted Medich. 



Native ; on banks and in waste grassy or turfy places. Common, 

 though somewhat local. ]\Iay to July, or later, 

 c. I. Port "Wrinkle and Seaton. Downderry. 



II. Kingsand. Rame. Wilcove. St. Stephens. 

 D. III. Between Plymouth and Milehouse. Devil's Point, Stonehouse. 

 Pennycross. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Plymouth ; N. Bot. Guide i. 16. Common in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the town, on the Hoe, Townsend Hill, 

 Lipson, &c. Cattedown. Plymstock. Alderpit, Egg Buckland. 

 Ridgway. 

 V. Newton Ferrers. Between the Yealmpton Road and Puslinch 



Bridge. 

 VI. Mothecombe. Ermington. 



Absent from the colder tracts. The seeds spring up soon after fallmg, 

 and form plants of considerable size before winter. When the floAvers 

 are touched the lobes of the keel expand and fall back on the calyx, thus 

 liberating the enclosed pistil, which with its surrounding anthers springs 

 up against the standard, and so the pollen is scattered. 

 First record : Watson, 1835. 



MELILOTUS, Tournef. 



173. M. officinalis, WiUd. Common Melilot. 



Native or Denizen ; on Umestone rubble heaps, m waste spots, 

 and by roadsides, chiefly in a cla^fey soil. Rare and local. 

 June to August, or later, 

 c. I. In several places by the Torpoint and Liskeard turnpike road 

 between Antony House Lodge and Polbathick ; knoAvn here 

 for the past sixteen years. 



