114 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLOKA OF PORTLAND. 



Obs. A form in Distr. 1 with a terminal head and 

 about three axillary sessile heads, the lowest about six 

 inches below top of peduncle ; see Symes' Eng. Bot., 

 in loco. 



Lotus corniculatus, L. Common Bird's-foot Trefoil. Var. 

 crassifolius, Pers. Native. Freq. I. By Chesil Bank. 

 II. Banks towards Castleton. The Weares. 

 L. tennis, Waldst. & Kit. Slender Bird's- foot Trefoil. 



Native. II. Freq. on Hill. 



Hippocrepis comosa, L. Horseshoe Vetch. Native. I. 

 Freq. Sandy ground Smallmouth to Chesil ; Flo. Dor. 

 Ed. 2. II. Very abundant. 



Onobrychis vicioefolia, Scop. Sainfoin. II. Freq. in cult, 

 gronnd. 



Obs. Probably only a relic of cultivation. 

 Vicia gracilis, Lois. Slender Tare. Native. II. Rather 

 common. " Cornfields Portland ;" Gibson. Cornfields 

 from centre of Island to Lower Lighthouses. Undercliff 

 between Rufus Castle and Southwell ; Mansel-Pleydell. 

 V. sylvatica, L. Wood Vetch. Native. II. Undercliff ; 

 Revel. H. E. Fox in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, 73. Not since 

 recorded. 

 V. sepium, L. Common Bush Vetch. Native. II. Rather 



common but local. Bushy places East Weare. 

 [V. laevigata, Sm. Smooth-podded Sea Vetch. " Dates (as 

 V. hybrida) from the Second Edition of Hudson's Flora 

 Anglica 1778 ; " Druce in Journ. Bot. 1908, p. 385. 

 " Among the shingles on Chesil Beach and in Portland, 

 Sir T. G. Cullum 1797 ; " " Portland Island among the 

 shingles near Chesil Bank and even flowering under the 

 stones some depth ; " ibid. Extinct.] 



Obs. In Herb. Mus. Brit, are two specimens of 

 V. Icevigata on one sheet, ex, herb. Banks, labelled in 

 Sir Joseph Banks' handwriting, " Portland Isle, Mr. 

 Lightfoot 1774. Among the pebbles at the foot of 

 the reach," (sic). The Chesil Bank has been 

 repeatedly but unsuccessfully searched for V. 



