Medicago.] legdminos^. 115 



E. il/erf.— Abundant in a field close to Bonchurch farm, the remains probably 

 of cultivation ; also near the same place by the path leading irum thence to the 

 landslip. 



W. Med. — Persistent (from cultivation) or naturalized in a grass-field close to 

 Gurnet farm, in great abundance. 



2. M. Iwpulina, L. Black Medick. Nonsuch. " Leaves obo- 

 vate-cuneate, stipules nearly entire, peduncles many - flowered, 

 spikes dense oval, legumes compressed unarmed kidney-shaped." 

 —Br. Fl. p. 97. E. B. t. 971. 



In dry waste and cultivated ground, fields, meadows, pastures, and by waysides 

 Sec. ; abundantly. Fl. May— August. ©. 



3. M. maculata, Sibth. Spotted Medick. Heart Medick. 

 " Leaflets obcordate, stipules toothed, peduncles few-flowered, 

 legumes compactly spiral compressed, the spires furrowed at the 

 edge and fringed with a double row of long spreading curved 

 prickles."— ^r. Fl. p. 97. M. polymorpha, E. B. t. 1616. 



In meadows, pastures, waste ground, by waysides and on hedgebanks, and 

 sometimes in woods ; frequent, especially on a gra>elly or calcareous soil. Fl. 

 May — August. 0. 



E. Med. — On the Dover, occasionally. Abundant on the shore between Spring- 

 field and Netlleslone point. On a piece of waste ground just out of Quarr-abbey 

 farm going up to the Fish-houses, in plenty. St Helen's, on the way to the spit, 

 in great plenty. Just out of Shanklin towards Bonchurch. In vast profusion in 

 a meadow by Beauehamp, near Niton. 



W.Med. — Abundant and very luxuriant on sandy banks about Motliston 

 church. Frequent about Brixton, Mottiston, Brook, and elsewhere on the green 

 (?) saud. At W. Cowes. Parapet of Yarmouth castle, Norton, &c., B. T. W. 



4. M. denticidata, Willd. Reticulated Medick. Nearly gla- 

 brous, leaflets obcordate, stipules laciniated, peduncles few-flower- 

 ed, legumes broad loosely spiral and flat with 2 — 3 spires deeply 

 reticulated the margin thin keeled with a double compact row of 

 prickles. 



0. vulgaris, Benth. Spines about half the diameter of the pod, divergent, 

 hooked at the extremity. Benth. E. B. vol. xxxvii. t. 2634. G. E. Smith, Pis. 

 of S.Kent. Br.Fl.]).98. 



Ou sandy banks and cliffs by the sea ; vei-y rare. Fl. May, June. Fr. June. 



0. 



E. Med. — At the foot of the cliff in Sandown bay towards the Culvers, just at 

 the junction of the chalk with the green sandstone, plentifully, but, so far as I 

 have observed it, in one spot only, of a few feet in exient; in greater plenty on 

 the same cliff just below the summit. [On St. Helen's spit, in some plenty, by 

 the old church ruins and along the road ; also on the bank at Brading quay, and 

 along the road thence towards the village, sparingly, A. G. More, ^'sy.— Edrs.] 



Bool tapering, with many whitish fibres. Stems several, prostrate, from a few 

 inches to a foot and upwards in length, quadrangular, glabrous in ray specimens. 

 Leaflets inversely heart-shaped, the 2 lateral nearly sessile, the middle one stalked, 

 toothed in their upper half, quite glabrous, the midrib continued into a small 

 point a little curved upwards at the notch. Stipules laciniato-dentate, their seg- 

 ments unequal, linear and acute. Flowers 2—3, on axillary peduncles, small, and 

 much paler than those of M. maculata. Sepals awl-sliaped, nearly equal in 

 length. Legumes on the elongated peduncles, blackish when ripe, mostly in our 

 Isle-of- Wight specimens of 2? rather loose spiral convolutions, much compressed 

 laterally, their surface curiously and deeply rugoso-reticulate, crested along their 



