184 THE PEA FAMILY. 



36. Spotted Medick — {Medicago maculdta.) 

 Waste places and on heaps of manure, but rare. Prestwich and 

 the neighbom-hood (J. P.) ; Bradford. Fl. May — July. Annual. 

 Curtis, i. 192 (as M. Arahica); E. B. xxiii. 1C16 (as M. polymorpha). 

 The leaflets are marked each with a black spot. 



37. Toothed Medick — {Medicdgo denticuldta.) 



Waste ground by the canal- side at Timperley, and in similar situa- 

 tions at Bowdon, sparingly. A usual companion of the spotted medick, 

 and probably brought in, like that, with imported cereals. Fl. May, 



June. Annual. 



E. B., Supp. i. 2G3.1. 



Mr. Hunt finds the variety apiculata, distinguishable by its straight and shorter 

 spines, in company with the normal form at Timperley. 



38. Little Buk Medick — [Medicdgo minima.) 



As a weed in John Horsefield's garden, Prestwich. (J. P.) Fl. June, 



July. Annual. 



E. B., Supp. i. 2635. 



A few other species are reported wild near Manchester, but require 

 investigation, viz. : — 



Yellow Vetch — {Vieia Ihtea.) 

 In a cornfield near Barton Railway Station. (J. E.) 

 Curds, iii. 516. 



Small-flowered Melilot — {Melilotus parvijldra.) 



Sardinian Melilot — [Melildtus Messanensis.) 

 Both on waste ground at Timperley. (Irvine, p. 667.) 



Slender Trefoil — {Trifdlium elegans.) 

 On a hedgebank at Prestwich. (J. P.) 



The Leguminosoe grown for ornament and economic use, amount to hundreds. 

 Those sown for fodder have been mentioned above ; the cuhnary kinds comprise 

 chiefly the common pea, or Pisuni sativmn ; the top-knot pen, or P. comosum ; 

 the common broad or Windsor bean, botanically Fdba vulgaris, well known by 

 the black spot on its wliite flowers ; and the two species of French bean, — the 

 dwarf, with a long, straight, and narrow pod {Phaseolus vulg&ris), and the 

 climbing, or scarlet runner, with a broad and curved pod (Ph. multijlurus). The 

 flower garden is enriched by them both in trees and herbaceous plants. The 

 Laburnum, showering down its fine gold, like rain of flowers, and the white 

 Acacia, more correctly called Robinia, are the tallest and handsomest; then come 



