116 Flora of Devon and Cornwall, by I. W. N. Keys. 
/3. G. humifusa (Dicks. MS.) — C- Covrack cove and else- 
where in the Lizard district (1867): Balkw. MS. Near Kynance 
cove: Bah. Man., and Gihs. in Phytol. 1 846, p. 680. " Very plentiful 
between Caerthilian and the Lizard lights :" Bail. MS. 
G. anglica (L.)—E.B. 132.— Moist peaty heaths.— D- Withe- 
combe ; Tallaton common; Maiden down; Bovey Heathfield ; 
Southmolton : Fl. Dev. Tiverton : Mack, in Piav. Holsworthy 
(1864): Balkw. — Q. Goonhilly downs: Hare in Phytol. 1845, 
p. 236. Arrowan common, St. Kevern (H. S. Herb.): Miss W. 
Needle Whin. 
Sarothamnus Wimm. Broom. 
S. scoparius (Koch). — Spartium L., Sm. — E.B. 1339. — Dry hills 
and heaths. — D- Dartmoor railroad, banks of the canal near Plym- 
bridge, and other places about Plymouth ; Tavistock ; Chagford. 
Longbridge ! : Balkw. Frequent throughout the county. — C« Bur. 
leigh-hill farm, near Saltash; near Lostwitliiel. Budock bottoms, 
Argol, &c., plentiful : Polytech. 1856. " Common in many places :" 
Pasc. in Bat. Gaz. ii, 39. 
Mr. Charles Bailey lias observed a variety of this species at the Lizard. 
In a notice thereof (accompanied by a specimen), communicated to the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, on the 11th December • 
18G6, that gentleman says : — 
The specimen exhibited was found gi-owiug in small patches on the clifts of serpen- 
tine rock about Vellan-head, situate about four miles north-west of the Lizard 
lights, and it differs from the normal form, here named var. a., in the following 
characters : — 
Var. a. crccta. — Stems erect, bushy ; leaves stalked, the petioles as long as, or 
longer than the leaflets ; leaflets elliptical-obovate, bluntish. 
Ytiv. (3. prosirata. — Stems prostrate, spi'eading; leaves shortly stalked or sessile; 
leaflets ovate-acute, acuminate. 
The Cornish form, here named (3. prosirata, difiers from the normal plant chiefly in 
its habit of growth, which, instead of being erect and bushy, is remarkably prostrate, 
the branches spreading out in fan-shaped patches, and growing flat upon the ground; 
the branches, pai ticulaily in the upper half, are densely clothed with short spreading 
hairs; the leaves have shorter stalks, with a greater tendency to suppress the two 
lateral leaflets, the majority of the leaves, in fact, being unifoliate ; the pods are less 
numerous, have their dorsal and ventral sutures covered with long silky haii's, and 
are black rather than brown, shorter, and have fewer seeds. 
