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sparingly, in different years, in the parishes of East Mole- 

 sey, Thames Dittou, and Chessington, all in Surrey ; but 

 being of shorter and more spreading growth than Trifo- 

 lium pratense, among which it occurs, it is unlikely to be 

 detected unless by the side of a footpath, or shortly after 

 the first mowing of the croj). The close resemblance of 

 its flowers to those of T. repens, when the latter are 

 slightly coloured, also may tend to prevent detection even 

 where it does come under sight. 



i^/, j*2/. 278*. Trifolium steictum, lAnn. 



Area 1. 



South limit in Cornwall. 



North limit in the same county. 



Estimate of provinces 1. Estimate of counties 1. 



Latitude 49 — 50. Local (Atl.) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends little above the coast level. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52. 



Native ? Pascual ? The single English station on re- 

 cord for this plant, is " near the Lizard Point, Cornwall" ; 

 the only part of England, except the Scilly Isles, which 

 extends to the southward of the latitudinal line of 50. It 

 may appear needless to fill in one of the usual formulas, 

 in the case of a plant which is so very restricted in its 

 area. The need or desirability of uniformly doing this, 

 even for the most local plants, is to be formd in the even- 

 tual use of the formida. The information will be requii'ed 

 some future day, ready prepared and uniformly arranged, 

 in order to institute comparisons between the botany of 

 Britain and that of other countries, and also between the 



