60 THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE NORTH LANCASHIRE FLORA. 
Ononis repens L. C.F.R., 1548. 
‘ O. arvensis, var. 2. Whole plant mags stems prostrate.’ 
Withering. Is this O. inermis Lange? 
1796. Withering, ed. iii, 627-8. At Sandscale and in the Isle 
of Walney, plentiful; common in dry sandy pastures in Low 
Furness, Atkinson. And repeated in 1801, Withering, ed. iv., 
613-14. 1805. West. Antiq., ed. Close, 378. 1812, Withering, 
ed. v., 773. 1818. Ed. vi, 825. 1830. Ed. vii., 834. 1842 
Evans, Furness and F. Abbey, 25. 1843. Jopling, Furness and 
Cartmel, 263 (as O. procurrens). On the shore, Conishead Priory ; 
Sandscale, Walney; Aiton. 1864. Linton, Lake Country, 321. 
Coniston. 1874. J. of B., Miss E. Hodgson. No locality. 
Ononis horrida Lange. A spinose maritime form of O. repens. 
1874. J. of Bot., Miss E. Hodgson. Round the shores. 
1885. Baker’s Flora, 67. ‘A spinose variety occurs on the Furness 
shores at Roosebeck and Flookborough. This is probably the plant 
given by Wilson as O. spinosa. I have not seen the true spinosa 
within our limits,’ J. G. Baker. 
[Ononis spinosa L. 
1843. Jopling, F. and C., 263. Bank-side, Cartmel, Wilson. 
See previous species. | 
Medicago lupulina L. C.F.R., 1629. 
1874. J. of B., Miss E. Hodgson. No locality. 
Melilotus altissima Thuil. 
1869. Aspland’s Guide (as officinalis). Within six miles of 
Grange, A. Mason. 1885. Baker’s Flora, 68. Abundant on the 
railway embankment at Grange, T. Gough; Miss E. Hodgson. 
Melilotus officinalis Desr. (arvensis Wallr.) C.F.R., 1848. 
1874. J. of B., Miss E. Hodgson. No locality. 1885. Baker’s 
Flora, 68. Railway embankment east of Grange—on both sides of 
the county boundary of Lancs. and Westm., W. Mathews. 
Melilotus parviflora Lam. 
1874. J. of B., Miss E. Hodgson (as vulgaris willd.). No 
locality, but ‘a starved solitary specimen near a farm.’ 1878 
of B., 88. A specimen in Miss Hodgson’s hier baitiain in British 
Museum i is mentioned by Mr. Jas. Britten as being parviflora and 
not vudgaris. 1885. Baker’s Flora, 68. ‘A solitary plant near the 
farmstead of Bowstead Gates, near Ulverston; Miss E. Hodgson. 
‘Wrongly recorded in J. of B. as M. vulgaris.’ 
‘Naturalist, 
