SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS—LAWSON. 187 
Flora Scotica, p. 269. Smith, English Flora, IIT. p. 297. Aiton 
fil., Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2, IV., p. 380 (1812.) The following 
is doubtful :—Bigelow, FI. Boston, p. 169. 
Trifolium Melilotus altissimum—Gmelin, II., p. 219 (Koch.} 
Trifolium altissiemum.— Lois, Flora Gallica, ID., p, 4 (DC., 
Koch.) 
_ Melilotus officinalis. Willdenow, Enumeratio Hort. Berol., 
II., pp. 789-90 (Seringe, Koch). Cider, Flora Danica, t. 934 
(Seringe). Seringe in DeCandolle’s Prodromus, IL, p. 186 
(1825). Koch, Synopsis Flore Germanic et Helvetice, ed. 1 
p. 166. Hooker, British Flora, ed. 5, p 78 (1842). Hooker & 
Walker-Arnott, Brit. Fl., p. 98 (1850). Babington, Manual of 
British Botany, ed. 3, p. 72 (1851). Hook. fil., Student’s Flora 
British Islands, ed. 1, p. 90 (1870). The following are more or 
less doubtful: Elliott, IZ, p.199. Torrey, Flora of New York, 
T,p. 170. Torrey & Gray, Flora 'N. America, L, p. 320 
(1838-40). Chapman, Fl. Southern N.S., p. 90. Gray, Manual, 
p. 128. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California. L, p. 132. Macoun, 
Catalogue, 1878, p. 11, No. 409. | Jones, Transactions Nova 
Scotia Inst. Nat. Se. Watson, Bibl. Index. Hemsley, Bot. 
Bermudas, Challenger Report, Botany, vol. 1. p. 28. 
M. macrorhiza. Persoon, Synopsis, II. p. 348. Seringe in 
DeCandolle’s Prodromus, II., p, 187 (Koch). 
3. Metitorus Inpica, Allioni. 
This is a small, precumbent or ascending, rarely erect, plant, 
with branches spreading from the base. The racemes are short, 
of very small, almost sessile, crowded flowers, and elongate in 
fruit ; pods elobose-ovate, wrinkled. 
This species occurs chiefly in the warmer parts of the south of 
Europe and in India. There are specimens from Brazil in the 
Edinburgh University Herbarium. In North America it had 
been found, when Torrey and Gray’s Flora was published, only 
at New Orleans, as a recent introduction. It has since appeared 
in California. It was collected by myself on Wandsworth Com- 
mon, near London, in 1851, and, subsequently, elsewhere in 
England by other botanists, but it does not appear to have 
