188 SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS—LAWSON. 
become permanently naturalized as an English plant. Neither 
does it seem to have spread in the Atlantic States, nor to have. 
reached Canada. 
Indica appears to have been the first specific name, coupled 
with the generic term Melilotus, applied to this plant, for the 
publications of Allioni, who gave it, extended (so far as can be 
ascertained,) only from 1755 to 1789; but I have at present no. 
means of reference to Allioni’s works, published at Turin and 
Paris. Desfontaines’ name, parviflora, under which this plant 
has more generally passed, was not published till the year 1799. 
The Trifolium warviflorum of Ehrhart is a totally different 
plant, a true Trifolium, the T. strictwm, of Linnezeus. — See 
Schrader’s N. Journal, IL, p. 112 (1808.) 
Melilotus. Indica. Allioni. Bentham in Mart. Fl. Bras. Smith 
in Rees’ Cyclopeedia. 
Trifolium Melilotus Indica d. Linn. Species Plantarum, p. 
1077. Roxburgh, Fl. Indica, IIT, p. 388; in E. I. C. Museum, 
tab. 411. 
M. parviflora. Desfontaine, Fl. Atl, I1., p. 192. Seringe in 
DeCandolle’s Prodromus, IL. p. 187. Hook., Comp., Bot. Mag. 
I., p. 22. Lawson, Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin. 1851. Torr & Gray, 
Fl. N. Am., I., p. 321... Gray, Pl., Fendl., p. 33,.Pl. Wright, IE, 
p. 41. Brewer & Watson, Bot., Calif, L, p. 132. Wallich, List 
of E. Ind. Plants, No. 5943. Wight & Arnott, Prod. Fl. Pen. 
Ind. Orient., p. 196. Hemsley, in Botany of Bermuda, Chal- 
lenger Report, Bot., I. p. 29 (1885). 
M. occidentalis. Nuttall in Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am., I p. 321. 
M. minima. Roth, Novee Species preesertim Indiz Orient- 
alis, p. 361. De Candolle, Prod., II, p. 189, Sprengel, Syst. 
Veg., IIL, p. 208. 
The following is a List of the Species and Varieties of Melilotus, 
as described in 1825 by Seringe, the monographer of this. 
genus in De Candolle’s Prodromus, Part IT., pp. 186-189. It will 
show the distribution of the several species as known at that 
time, before railroads and ocean steamships had influenced. theix- 
