124 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



with narrow linear leaflets /3. iennifolins (Roth.) has been observed 

 near Marlborough by the Rev. T. A. Preston. 



Ornithopus, (Ltnn.) Birds-foot. 

 Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. iii. 



Name. So called from the cluster of beaded pods resembling 

 (pous) the foot, (ornithos) of a bird. 



1. 0. perpusillus (Linn.) very small Birds- foot, ^msj7/«<s of itself 

 means small, which with per prefixed becomes a superlative. JEngl. 

 Bat. t. 369. 



Locality. Dry sandy and gravelly places. Rare. A. Fl. May, 

 July. Area, 1. * 3. 4. * 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Alderbury Common," Major Smith, and 

 Mr. James Hiissey. 



3. South-west District, " On the chalky ridge leading from the 

 walls of Mr. Wyndham's grounds at Salisbury, towards Bishop's- 

 down," Dr. Maton. "Five Ash Lane Bishopstrow," Mr. R. C. 

 Griffith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Quarry at Bowood, "Sandpits and 

 quarry in Spye Park," Dr. Alexander Prior. " Flor. Bath." This 

 elegant little plant is not frequent in any of the Districts. The 

 beauty of its flowers when closely examined, and the great resem- 

 blance which its curved articulated legumes bear to the claws of a 

 bird, render it an object highly deserving of attention. Sir James 

 Smith observed that when it does not produce legumes, it propa- 

 gates itself by the grains or tubercles of its root, through in 

 general the root is annual. This genus diflTers from " Coronilla " 

 by the slightly flattened pod, and by the leaf on the peduncle 

 under the flowers. 



HippocREPis, (Linn.) Horse-shoe Vetch. 

 Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. iii. 



Name. From hippos (Gr.) a horse, and krepis (Gr.) a shoe, in 

 reference to the shape of the recesses of the pods, which are curved 



