868 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Medicago, 
the gate of Godfrey’s Lammas, Warwick. Perry. Maes y porth, Angle* 
sey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
(Yar. 2. Leafits inversely egg-shaped, covered with white silky down. 
Prickles of the legumes stiffly hooked. Blossom small, pale yellow. E.) 
II. Ox. ii. 15, row 2. 15— J. B. ii. 386. b. — Riv. Tetr. 88, Cochleata, row 4, 
f. 4, Ech. Min. — J. B. ii. 386. 2. a. — Park. 1115. 7. a. — FI. Dan. 211. 
{Medicago polymorpha minima. Linn. Oed. M. echinata minima. Ray. 
Bauh. M. minima. With. Ed. 3 and 4. Hull. Willd. Sm. M. polymor¬ 
pha fi. FI. Brit. E.) Sandy places, especially on the sea coast, but 
rather rare. At Narborough, near Swaffham. Mr. Woodward. Chip¬ 
penham gravel-pit. Rev. R. Relhan. (Between Sandwich and Pegwell, 
abundant. Mr. G. E. Smith. E.) 
Var. 3. Leafits inversely egg-shaped, hairy; prickles of the fruit very 
short, depressed, not rigid. 
Pluk. 113. 6— II. Ox. ii. 15. 11. 
M. polymorpha muricata. Linn. M. muricata. With. Ed. 3 and 4. Hull. 
Willd. Sm. M. muricata y. FI. Brit. E.) At Orford in Suffolk, on the 
sea bank, plentifully. Ray. 
(Jfef. polymorpha appears to be a very valuable plant, according to local and 
other circumstances. The leaves may be more or less serrated, and the 
spots thereon sometimes scarcely observable. 
Mr. G. E. Smith attracts attention to a plant of the above description, not 
unfrequently found from the foot of the chalk escarpment at Folkstone 
to New Romney and Rye. This plant is said to be distinguished by 
its beautifully reticulated legumes, small, pale yellow flowers, and pale 
green, smooth, herbage. Mr. S. conjectures it may prove to be 
M. denticulata. Willd. It is figured in Sm. Obs. pi. i. also in Mag. 
Nat. Hist. i. 398. In the former work will also be found some curious 
observations on the structure of the legumes of certain species of Medi¬ 
cago. E.) 
