eastern side of Alderney. It was gathered in April, 1838,
on Tresco, one of the Scilly Islands, in abundance, by Miss
White, an inhabitant of those islands. Whatever opinion
we may have had concerning its claims to be admitted into
the English Flora as a native of the Channel Islands, this
latter discovery, bringing it within the county of Cornwall,
has shown it to be a true Briton.
Root fibrous. Stems numerous from the crown of the
root, procumbent, simple, terete, filiform, bearing a few
scattered adpressed hairs. Leaves alternate, pinnate, of four
or five pairs and a terminal leaflet, the lowest pair distant
from the stalk; leaflets oval, entire, pointed, glabrous
above, with a few scattered adpressed hairs beneath, particularly
on the strong prominent midrib, all equal in size.
Bracteas wanting. Stipules minute. Peduncles about as
long as the leaves, bearing from 1—3, usually 2, flowers.
Flowers yellow, standard externally red. Calyx cylindrical,
terminating in five acute segments,the upper ones connected
nearly to their points. Legume cylindrical, curved, of numerous
one-seeded indehiscent joints, rarely at all contracted
at the articulations, rugose. Seeds oblong.
The specimens figured were obtained from the garden of
W. Borrer, Esq., where they had grown from seeds collected
in Guernsey, in 1837, compared with fresh Alderney
specimens supplied by the writer.—C. C. B.