92 LEGUMINIFERiE. 



Plants occur about some of the military forts near Plymouth, and also 

 elseAvhere, wliich are more like L. tenuis than L. corniculatus, yet do not 

 appear sufficiently marked to allow me to confidently assign them to the 

 former, I think that at some places at least these may have been sown 

 with clover and grass seeds. 



Fu'st record : Briggs, 1860, in Ikytologist. 



192. Ij. mijor, Sco}^. 3Iarsh Bird's-foot TrefoU. 



Native ; in damp spots by roadsides and ditches, m marshes, 



pastures, and moorland swamps. Very common. June to 



August. Area general. 



Grows m the immediate \icinity of Plymouth, as between the town 



and ]Milehouse ; and extends from the neighbourhood of the coast to the 



swamps and vales of Dartmoor. 



193. L. angustissinius, L. Long-podded Small B^rd's-foot Trefoil. 



Native ; m old pasture land, on banks, and in turfy spots on or 

 near the coast ; or in the vicmity of tidal waters. Rare. June 

 to September, 

 c. I. St. Germans Hut, Whitsand Bay ; Keijs, Fl. ii. 124 ; side of the 

 Beacon, 1876. On a bank by a lane at Broadmoor, St. Stephens, 

 about three miles from the coast, but within half-a-mile of the 

 tidal Notter, 1871 ; in plenty, 1878. 

 II. [Lane leading from Trevol, near the village of St. Johns : for 

 specimens and the habitat of this plant I am indebted to my 

 friend the Rev. W. S. Hore, who gave them to me in July, 

 1834 ; Jacob, Fl. part 4 ; with plate. Not seen here for many 

 years. ] 

 Whitsand Bay, with the following species ! ; Hore^m Phyt. i. 163. 

 Maker Heights ! ; Syme, E. B. ed. 3, iii. 69. Forder, near 

 Rame ! ; Keys, Fl. ii. 124. Rame Head, and in numerous 

 spots between that and Penlee Point. 

 D. IV. In pasture land between Bovisand and Wembury Church ; noticed 

 at various times and in different spots ; seen in considerable 

 quantity in a dry grass-field there in 1875. 

 V. Above the High ChfFs, Wembury. Above the coast near Worse- 

 well Farm-house, Revelstoke, in tolerable quantity, 1875. Two 

 plants noticed in a cart-way above Wadliam Beach, by Bigbury 

 Bay, 1875. 

 This, together with L. hisjndus, delights to gi'ow in old turfy ground 

 patched with furze, on the warm sea-bank above our rocky shores. Here 

 the two are much more frequent than might be supposed, considering the 

 statement as to their great rarity in leading works on British botany. 

 The size of the plants greatly depends on the character of the season ; in 



