278 FIKST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



G. pilosa L. Sp. PI. 710 (1753). 1775. « Found by Sir John 

 Cullum about Lackford, four or five miles from St. Edmund's Bury, 

 in July, 1774."— Eose's Elements of Botany, App. 454. Sir J. 

 Cullum found it at Icklingham in 1771 : see Hind's Fl. Suffolk, 105. 



G. tinctoria L. Sp. PI. 710 (1753). 1570. " Genistella 

 infectoria— Angl. Dieweed .... Angliae occidufe." — Lob. Adv. 407. 



Ulex europseus L. Sp. PI. 741 (1753). 1570. "In Anglia, 

 ubi frequentissima in sterilibus et ericetis."— Lob. Adv. 409. 



U. Gallii Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3rd S. xix. 207 (1849). 

 1849. From Dorsetshire. Distinguished by Planchon in 1846. — 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 3rd S. xix. 203. 



U. nanus T. F. Forster in Sym. Syn. 160 (1798), (including 

 U. Gallii). 1641. " Non procul a Castro South Sea Castle in 

 Comitatu South-hampton." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 21. 



Cytisus scoparius Link, Enum. ii. 241 (1822). 1548. 

 " Groweth in al countriis of England where as I have ben." — 

 Turn. Names, D ij, back. 



Ononis repens L. Sp. PI. 717 (1753) (O. arvensis E. B. Supp. 

 2659). 1548. " Groweth in many places aboute Cambryge." — 

 Turn. Names, B i. 



O. spinosa L. Sp. PI. 716 (1753). 1597. "In our London 

 pastures, and likewise in other places." — Ger. 1141. 



O. reclinata L. Sp. PI. ed 2, 1011 (1762). 1835. Found 

 in Aug. 1835, by Prof. Graham by the sea to the north of West 

 Tarbert, near the Mull of Galloway (Co. Wigton).— Hook. Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. 119. E. B. Supp. 2838. 



Trigonella purpurascens Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 590 (1778). 1690. 

 "Mr. Newton in our company found it .... at Tolesbury, in 

 Essex."— Ray, Syn. i. 246. 



Medicago sylvestris Fr. Mant. iii. 92 (1842). 1805. Near 

 Bury, Suffolk.— Sir T. G. Cullum in Bot. Guide, 561. 



M. falcata L. Sp. PI. 779 (1763). 1634. " In montosis."— 

 Johns. Merc. Bot. 74. "Between Linton and Bartlow," &c. 

 (Cambs).— R. C. C. 167 (1660). 



M. lupulina L. Sp. PI. 779 (1753). 1629. " Medica semine 

 racemoso." — Johns. Kent, 1. 



M. denticulata "Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1414 (1800). 1670. " At 

 Orford in Suffolk."— Bay, Cat. 302. G. E. Smith in PI. of S. Kent, 



43 (1829), as denticulatu. 



M. arabica Huds. i. 288 (1762). M. maculata Sibth. Fl. Ox. 

 232 (1794). 1632. Hampstead Heath.— Johns. Enum. 41. 



M. minima Desr. ap. Lam. Diet. iii. 636 (1709). 1660. "In 

 an old gravell pit in the corn field near Wilborham church ; also at 

 Newmarket " (Cambs).— R. C. C 166. 



Melilotus officinalis Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 594 (1778). 1597. 

 " No part of the world doth enjoy so great plenty thereof as England 

 doth, and especially Essex." — Ger. 1034. 



M. alba Desr. ap. Lam. Diet. iv. 63 (1797). 1830. " Denes 



at larmouth. Corn fields at Aberlady Bay near Edinburgh. Mr. 

 Lloyd."— Hook. Brit. Flora, 327. 



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