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LOTUS. 



L. eomiculatus, Linn. Bird's-foot Trefoil. 



Native : In pastures and on heaths and roadsides. Common. May 



to July. 

 Common throughout the county. 

 L. tenuis, Kit. Slender Birds'-foot Trefoil. 



Native : In fields, and on banks and roadsides, in marly and 



calcareous soils. Local. June to September. 

 II. Dunchurch Road, near Ruoby, Bev. A. B., N. B. G. S., 1837 ; near 



Birdingbury Station, H. W. T. ; Whitnash, Chesterton, 1'. and 



B. : Hampton-on-the-Hill ! H. B. ; abundant on the Fosseway, 



near Darlingscote, Neivb. ; Harbury, W. B. Grove ; Binton ; 



Grafton : Wilmcote ; Studley ; Bearley ; Exhall ; Bidford ; 



and between Kineton and Edge Hills. 

 L. major, Scop. Mamh Bird'a-font Trefoil. 



Native: On moist heaths and banks, ditch sides, A'c. Locally 



common. June to September. 

 I find this in all the districts throughout the county. 



ASTRAGALUS. 



A.'glycypliyllus, Linn. Wild Liquorice. 



Native : On roadsides and in pastures, in calcareous or marly soils. 

 Rare. June. 



II. Oversley, Grafton, Purt., i., 309 ; Bidford, Bree., Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 iii., 165 ; Tachbrook, near the Fosse Road, Y. and B. ; Bill- 

 borough Hill, near Alcester, Blox., N. B. G. S. ; Morton Bagot ; 

 Ashorne ; Lighthorne ; Binton. 



ORNITHOPUS. 



0. perpusillus, Linn. Least Bird's-foot. 



Native : On heathy footways and sandy fields. Local. June to 



September. 



I. Hartshill ! on gravelly soils. J. P., MS. note in B. G. Sutton 



Park ; Old Chester Road ; Coleshill Heath ; Bannersley Rough ; 



Berkswell ; Ilampton-in-Arden ; Sandy Quarry, Cornels End. 



II. Leamington, Kenilworth, Y. and B.; Lye Green. 



[Hippocrepis conio^a, Linn. Ilor^e-shoe Vetch. Mr. Bromwich has 

 found this on high banks, in Lias soils, near Morton MoitcU ; 

 but it cannot be considered as more than a casual weed in the 

 county. Morton Morrell, June, ISGi, H. B., Herb. Brit. Mus.] 



ONOBRYCHIS. 

 0. sativa. Lam. Sainfoin, Cockshead. 



Native : In arable land, and by roadsides, etc., in marly and 

 calcareous soils. Local. June to August. 

 II, (Hedysa)-um Onolrychia). Rare. Grafton ! Billesley ! Purt. i., 341 ; 

 Harbury, Y. and B. ; Binton ; road from Stratford to Bidford ; 

 Red Hill ; Wixford ; banks near Rose Hall, Oversley ; railway 

 banks, Studley. In many of the habitats merely the remains 

 of former cultivation. 



VICIA. 

 V. hirsuta, Koch. Hairy Tare. 



Native : On banks, by roadsides, and in fields. Common. May to 

 August. Found throughout the county. 

 V. tetrasperma, Moench. Smooth Tare. 



Native : In arable land, on banks, etc., in marly districts. Local, 

 June to August, 



