FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. a7. 
Ambiguity. Fenugrecum humile repens ornithopodtis siliquis brevibus 
erectis, Ray’s Stirp. 1688. Synopsis, ed. i. ii. and iii. with plate. ‘Near 
Oxford in the like ground’ (hilly cornfields). Record copied in Hudson, 
Smith, Fl. Br., Eng. Fl., Bot. Guide, New do., Gough's Camden, Martyn, 
ete. 
Sibthorp omits it, and there is no more recent record than the one 
quoted above. 
Shotover, Stow Wood border, and the sandy heaths have been vainly 
searched for it. 
Berks. Greenham Common, Newb. Gloster W. 
** T. foenum grecum, L. Comp. Cyb. 498. Fcenugreek. 
Casual. One plant, side of G. W. Railway. Little Bourton, A. Fr. 
Waste ground, G. W. Station, Oxford. Not even naturalized, 
MELILOTUS, Juss. 
M, altissima, Thuill. Melilot. 
M. officinalis, Willd. Top. Bot. 108. Syme, E. B. iii. 29. 341. Nym. 
172. Bx. 363. 
Native. Viatical, septal. Fields, roadsides, newly turned-up ground, 
railsides, etc. A. June-Aug. 
Not uncommon, and I think native. 
First record, 1657, Wm. Coles in ‘ Adam in Eden. 
8. Swere. Tadmarton, H. Walford. Hardwick Hill, R. French. 
Deddington, Canal side towards Franklin’s Knob, A, Fr. Near 
Somerton, Bz. MSS. 
4, Ray. Between the foot of Headington Hill and Oxford, Wm. Coles. 
Marston Lane, Bx. 1827. Noke, Beckley, Kirtlington, etc. 
5, Isis. Lane going to Binsey! Sib. Between Cassington and Church 
Handborough, Bs. 1833. Wolvercote, H. Bos. Curbridge, F. 
Westell. Stonesfield, Bladon, Mill Wood, Oxford, Handborough rail- 
side. 
6. Thame. Cowley field, Bx. 1831. Thame, one or two miles on the 
Oxford Road, A. Fr., do. Hb. Bz. Iffley, Newb. Nuneham, Bright- 
well, near Thame, H. Bos. Wheatley, Littlemore, Wheatley rail- 
side. 
Berks. Between S. Hinksey and Childswell Farm, Bx. Blewberry, 
Newb. Wittenham, by Day’s Lock. 
* M. alba, Desr. White Melilot. 
Comp. Cyb. 140. Syme, E, B. ii. 31. 342. Nym.172. Top. Bot. 109. 
M. leucantha, Koch. M. vulgaris, Willd. 
Colonist. Waste places, garden ground, Rare. B. July, Aug. 
First record, Beesley, 1841. 
3. Swere. Farm field, very rare, 7. Beesley. 
