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TRIGONELLA, L. 



176. T. ornithopodioides, i).C. Bird's Foot. 



Native ; in sandy, rocky, or dry, turfy, waste spots from close to 

 the coast to the distance of one or two miles from salt water. 

 Rather common. ]May to September, 

 c. I. On the coast at Port Wrinkle, and in a turfy spot on the south- 

 western side of St. Germans Beacon. By the Notter, below 

 Screasdon Fort. In plenty on Trevollard Green. 

 II. Torpoint ; Hore, Phytol. i. 163. Near St. Johns I idem, Keys, 

 S. D. Lit. Chron. 300. I have seen it by the ' Lake ' between 

 the village and Penhale, and at Penhale. Mount Edgcumbe 

 Park ; Penlee Point ; Whitsand Bay ! Keys, Fl. ii. 123. Be- 

 sides gTowing immediately above the Bay, I have found it 

 between there and Millbrook, and close to Wiggle farm-house. 

 Combe and Pill, near Saltash. Near Carkeel, by the road to 

 Botus Fleming. By Millbrook Lake, at Weir. Calloget Green. 

 Tmnel Green. 

 D. III. Saltash Passage. King's Tamerton. By the Tavy at Beer Ferrers, 

 and by an inlet from the Tamar between Beer Ferrers village 

 and Holes Hole. 

 IV. Cann Quarries ; Miss Edmonds, 1849 ; it was collected this year 

 by Mr. F. H. Goiddiiuj ; Keys, Phyt. iii. 1024 ; ! seen on both 

 the slaty mound and by a footpath thence to Plymbridge. 

 Waste spot by Hey Brook, and in front of a quarry on the 

 coast a little nearer Bovisand. Bank near Down Thomas. 

 Crabtree. 

 V. Wembury, by the field-path a little way from the Yealm Ferry, 

 1873 ; above the High Cliff's, 1879. 

 Partial to slaty banks near salt or brackish water, where the soil is not | 

 of sufficient depth to nourish species to any considerable extent larger 1 

 than itself. It is generally associated with some of the smaller Trefoils, 

 Sagina ciliata, Cerastiitm tetrandrum, Ornitho'pus perpusilliis, &c. The 

 seeds often vegetate in the autumn, and by winter produce plants of some 

 size ; which is likeAvise the case with Trifolium striatum, T. suhter- 

 raneum, and other of the smaller Trefoils. 

 First record : Hoi-e, 1842. 



TKIFOLIUM, L. 



177. T. subterraneum, L. Subterranean Trefoil. 



Native ; in sandy or dry Avaste turfy spots, mostly on the coast 



or in the vicinity of tidal waters. Rather common. April to 



June. 

 0. I. In profusion about St. Germans Beacon, studding the turf with 



