60 MESSRS. H. A. HURST AND A. LETOURNEUX^S 



M. messanensis, L. 



M. elegans, Salzm. 



M. parviflora, Desf., =indica, All. Mar. 



Hymenocarpus nummularius , DC. ; Lx. Exs. 47. 



Medicago circinata, Tar. (5, Willd. 



Boissier only gives this plant as growing in Egypt and 

 Southern Persia. 



Lotus argenteus, Del. ; Lx. Exs. 184. 



L. eduUs, L. Mar. 



L. creticus* L. Mar. 



L. cystisoides, DC. Mar. 



L. corniculatus , L. 



L. tenuifolius, Rehb. 



L. pusillus, Viv. Fl. Lib. 



With the following : — 



L. pusillus, var. ^. major, = L. halophilus, et L. Aucheri, 

 Boiss. ; pedunculus bifiorus vel rarius 3-4-fiorus. 



This latter plant may be considered a good type of a 

 variety. In a dry season only the type can be found; 

 while in a season with an excess of wet^ such as 1876-7 the 

 variety /3 predominates on the very same ground. 



Sicily; Attica; Syria; easternpartof Northern Africa; 



