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EUROPEAN RANGE OF BRITISH PLANTS. 



{June, 



Oxalis corniculata. 

 Peplis Portula. 



Kubus fruticosus. 

 Fragaria vesca. 



Sarothammis scoparius. 

 Medicago Lupulina. 

 Melilotus parviflora. 

 Trifolium scabrum. 



Oxalidea (1). 



Lythrariea (2). 



Lythrum hyssopifolia. 



Rosacea (6). 

 Potentilla Tormentilla. 

 Potentilla reptans. 



Fapilionacece (11). 

 Trifolium suffocatum. 

 Trifolium glomeratum. 

 Trifolium repens. 

 Trifolium procumbens. 



AgHmonia Eupatoria. 

 Poterium Sanguisorba. 



Lotus angustissimus. 

 Lotus corniculatus. 

 Lathyrus Aphaca. 



It is worth remarking that several of the plants in the forego- 

 ing hst are such as are said to accompany man in all his migra- 

 tions ; or wherever the human family pitches his shanty, raises 

 his hutj or builds his house and encloses his garden, some of 

 the following plants spring up, viz. Sonchus oleraceus, Galium 

 Aparine, Malva rotundifolia, Solanum nigrum ; but Poa annua, 

 Alsine media, and Senecio vulgaris do not appear in the Azorean 

 list. 



Primula vulgaris, a plant which, although a universal favourite, 

 has no tendency to associate with mankind : it is as shy of his 

 vicinity as the Orchids ; and though its geographical range be 

 very extensive, its migrations cannot be in any way traced to 

 human agency. It is however found from the south to the north 

 of Europe ; at all events, it is both a Grecian and a British 

 plant. Why may not the Aremonia agrimonioides and the Are- 

 naria balearica, both plants belonging to the Mediterranean flora, 

 and also found in Perthshire, be also natives of Britain ? 



That there are more species common to the British and the 

 Japanese Islands than to the former and the Azorean, may be 

 attributable to the greater extent of the empire of Japan, and also 

 to the fact that it was probably elevated from Thetis' lap centu- 

 ries, or possibly thousands of years, before the Azoric group 

 emerged from the bottom of the Atlantic. 



Note. — The species common to both the Azorean and the Ja- 

 panese floras are printed in italics. 



The following list is from Thunberg, compiled eighty years 

 ago, and contains the plants common to Great Britain and 

 Japan : — 



