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Cytisus (Link). Broom. 
C. scoparius (Link). Fig. 138 Broom. Native. Shrub. V-VII. 
Woods, hedges, railway banks, etc. Occasional in Lancashire. 
Frequent in Cheshire. 
C. Bidston ; Heswall; Willaston ; along the Chester rail- 
way, etc. 
Ononis (L.). ’Rest Harrow. 
0. repens (L.). Fig. 139. Procumbent ’Rest Harrow. Native. 
P. VI-IX. 
Sandy places near the sea. Common. 
Note. — S o named because its tough roots arrest the progress of a 
harrow. 
0. spinosa (L.). Fig. 140. Upright Spinous ’Rest Harrow. 
Native. P. VI, IX. 
On poor pastures and waste places. Frequent. 
L. Hale. 
C. Between New Ferry and Bromborough Pool; abundant 
about Meols; Shotwick; Neston; Heswall; Thornton Hough; 
Denham Colliery ; Stoke to the R. Gowey ; Mollington, etc. 
Trigonella (D.C.). 
T. purpurascens (L.). Fig. 141. Birdsfoot Fenugreek. Native. 
A. VI, VII. 
High sandy ground. Very rare and local. 
C. At the junction of the roads leading to West Kirby and 
the Hill Houses (D.). Within twenty yards of Bidston Wind- 
mill (f.p.m. ; h.s.f.) ; there in 1893 ( Dr - G -)* Caldy (Miss c. g.). 
Roadside on the Parkgate side of Ness; Refuse mounds at 
Denhall Colliery (Lord de t.; f.m.w.). 
F. Point of Air (r.b.). 
T. foenum=graecum. 
C. Was found in 1863 as a casual at Claughton, (f.m.w.; 
H.S.F.). 
Medicago (L.). Medick. 
M. sativa (L.). Fig. 142. Lucerne. Alien. P. VI, VII. 
Fields and waysides. Frequent. Naturalised. 
L. Near the sandhills at Formby. 
C. New Ferry; Claughton; Wallasey to Hoylake ; Thur- 
staston ; Great Saughall ; Ellesmere Port. 
