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wet summers luxuriant ones will sometimes have branches ten inches or 

 a foot long. 



First record : Jacob, 1835. 



194. L. hispidus, Desf. Short-podded Small Bird's-foot Trefoil. 

 Native ; in old pasture land, on banks, in turfy spots and some- 

 times fields of grass, on or near the coast. Rare. Jime to 

 September. 

 0. I. St. Germans Hut ; Keys, Fl. ii. 124. 



II. Maker Heights ; Sijme, E. B., ed. 3, iii, 70 ! ; 1873. Forder, 

 near Rame ; Keys, FL ii. 124. Rame Head, and bet\^'een that 

 and Penlee Point. Associated at all the above stations, and 

 many of the others, Avitli L. angustlssimus. 

 D. IV. In pasture land and elsewhere above the coast between Bovisand 

 and Wembury Church ; as in a dry field opposite the ^Mewstone, 

 1865 ; in abundance, 1875 ; about an old quarry a little nearer 

 Down Thomas, 1867 ; in another field apparently broken some 

 years previous, 1869. 

 V. Cliffs at Nitton (Netton), near Revelstoke ; Rev. E. Julian, 

 Puivensh. Fl. 124 ; in abundance m old turfy land above the 

 coast near Worsewell farm-house to the west of Fetton, 1879. 

 Above the High Cliffs, Wembury. In a turfy spot and cart- 

 way above Wadham Beach by Bigbury Bay, 1875. 

 VI. In considerable quantity in a grass-field above Bigbury Bay, be- 

 tween Kingston and Ringmore, 1875. 

 A comparison of the above stations with those under L. angustissimus 

 will show how very similar is the distribution of the two plants. L. 

 hisindus seems more disposed than the other to reappear after the soil 

 has been broken for cultivation. Its flowers are of a darker yellow than 

 those of angustissimus. The respective length of the legume forms a 

 good character for distinguishing the two when m fruit. I have recorded 

 many of the stations for both in the Journal of Botany. 



ORNITHOPUS, L. 



195. 0. perpusillus, i. Least Bird^s-foot. 



Native; on commons, banks, in old pasture land, and dry or 

 sandy waste spots. Common. May to September. 

 c. I. St. Germans Beacon. Between Hessenford and Seaton. Trevol- 

 lard Green. Viverdon Down. Cadsonbury. 

 II. Near the rum. Mount Edgcumbe ; rock in Antony Wood; 

 Banks, Fl. No. 6. Maker Heights ; Keys, Fl. ii. 130. Saltash. 

 Carkeel. 

 D. III. W^aste ground behmd Momit Tamar House ; Baahs, ibid; still 



