826 NEW RECORDS FOR RUBI IN SOMERSET. 
trained so as to form arbours, or to cover the ons and roofs 
of houses. Roxburgh describes several varieties. The flowers are 
white or purple, and there is one variety with reddish purple pods 
(D. pw pureus L.). The pods are eaten as a vegeta 
asur or Lentits (Lrvum Lens L.),——This is x0 ‘much 
in the district, being chiefly confined to low-lying damp cine SOs 
It is a cold season crop. The seeds are eaten as a dal, but are not 
considered wholesome ; the flour, however, is said to be the chief 
— = the preparation known as Revalenta Arabica 
Mar r Frevp Pea (Pisum sativum L.).—Also 0 grown during 
the ald nova but to a very small extent in | this district. There 
are two distinc t kinds, the one with round white seeds, and the 
other with compressed marbled seeds, this latter constituting the 
subspecies P. arvense 
art or Cimepine Vercu (Lathyrus sativus L.).—This plant, 
which is cultivated during the cold season, is chiefly remarkable 
other kinds of pulse, and this accounts for its extensive cultivation 
on some of the village ma _ the soil is suited to. it. It 
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latter name (Arhar) is ba, of av oes known as C. indicus, var. 
sari ap is the kind most commonly cultivated about here. It 
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accompanies juar bine or cotton. It is lar, rely grown in De 
and is largely consumed it in the form 
Guar or Kuurti (Cyamopsis pataioiaa DC.).—This is a rainy 
season crop, and is 7 cultivated in some parts of the district 
for its seed, which i — to cattle; a smaller variety is also 
grown for the sake of its pods, which are eaten as a vegetable. 
The same use is also ine of this plant as a wind- protector as was 
mentioned in the case of the pigeon pea 
(To be continued. ) 
NEW RECORDS FOR RUBI IN SOMERSET. 
By Rev. R. P. Murray, M.A., F.L.S. 
I wisx to place on record the following species of Rubus, which 
I have met with during the present season. Many of them are new 
to the county; the remainder are new vice-comital records, Un- 
