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met with in the above locality. Miss L. Meredith has more 

 recently observed a single example in a grass field between Rowde 

 and Bromham in the North-west District. 



7. Y. sativa (Linn.) Common or cultivated Yetch. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 334. St. t. 31, 10. 



Locality. In dry gravelly or sandy pastures, waste and culti- 

 vated ground, on banks, along hedges, roadsides, and in woods 

 and bushy places. A. Fl. May, June. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all 

 the Districts, but probably not indigenous, having long been sown 

 as an early fodder for cattle. 



Varieties of this species are occasionally met with in which the 

 leaves become narrower and almost linear, (Var. /3. angustifolia 

 (Sm.) and Bobartii (Forst.) but a careful comparison of many speci- 

 mens shews them to be connected with each other, and with the 

 common form of sativa by such intermediate and insensible grada- 

 tions, that whether correctly or not, I cannot help considering 

 them as modifications of the same species. 



Lathyrus, (Linn.) Yetchling, Everlasting Pea. 

 Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. iii. 



Name. From Lathurus (Gr.) of Theophrastus, which is said to 

 be from la (Gfr.) augmentative, and thouros (Gr.) anything exciting, 

 in reference to the qualities of the seeds. 



1. L. Aph'aca (Linn.) Yellow Yetchling. Engl. Bot. t. 1167. 



Locality. Sandy and gravelly fields, not uncommon. A. Fl, 

 May, August. Area, 1. * 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Near Salisbury," Mr. Winch, ( Watson's 

 Bot. Guide.) "Common in several places close to Salisbury," 

 Mr. James Hussey. "Hedges near Alderbury and Trafalgar," 

 Major Smith. 



3. South-west District, Cornfields at Boyton. " Warminster and 

 Corsley," Miss Griffith. 



North Division, 



4. North-west District, Near Bradford, Winsley, and Box. 

 Fields between Rowdeford and Bromham. 



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