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carnatum), occurs occasionally as a stray from cultivation, but is 

 hardly naturalized. 



Trifolium arvense. Sandy fields, but not very common. On Ryde 

 Down. Very abundantly and of most luxuriant growth on the sandy 

 banks of debris at the foot of the cliffs in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight. 

 At St. Helen's, and a few other places. Extremely abundant on the 

 south beach, Hayling Island, the heads of flowers often subglobose, 

 and the whole plant dwarf, when it is probably the variety of Ray's 

 Synopsis, Dillenian edition, vol. ii. p. 330, to judge from the descrip- 

 tion, figure, and nearness to the locality given in that work. 



striatum. Sandy fields and pastures not uncommon in the 



Isle of Wight. It used to be frequent on Ryde Down, which, before 

 that piece of ground was built over, produced the greater number of 

 the rarer species of this genus indigenous to Britain, along with many 

 other interesting plants now extinct, or nearly so, in that locality. 



scabrum. In various parts of the Isle of Wight on sandy 



and chalky fields, pastures and banks, but not very common. Ryde 

 Down, &c. 



glomeratum. Sandy places, but rare. In several parts of 



the Isle of Wight. In some plenty with the next on Ryde Down a 

 few years since. Sandown Bay. St. Helen's. Freshwater, near Ly- 

 mington, at Woodside, 1848. 



suffocatum. Sandy pastures by the sea; very rare ? Pro- 

 fusely on Ryde Down in 1843, and still to be found there by diligent 

 search, but a great part of the ground on which it grew is now broken 

 up and built upon. Red Cliff, at the extreme south point of the 

 island on which St. Catherine's lighthouse now stands, Mr. G. Kirk- 

 patrick. 



subterraneum. Frequent in the county on dry, short pas- 

 ture ground. About Southampton. Very common in the Isle of 

 Wight, its long, slender flowers conspicuously whitening the turf in 

 many places. On Ryde Down, &c. 



fragiferum. A plentiful species in rather damp meadows 



and pastures in most parts of the island, and I believe of the main- 

 land also. I am not prepared to state the comparative frequency of 

 this and of our other trefoils over the latter division of the county, not 

 having directed my attention to the point, or received notices of their 

 occurrence from others. The species belonging to the remaining di- 

 vision of the genus, with yellow flowers, namely, T. procumbens, mi- 

 nus and filiforme, are all common weeds of the entire county. 



f ornithopodioides. Dry banks and pastures, rare ? pro- 



