448 75. AMARYLLIDACE.E. 



not allow the snowdrop to be native in any part of Scandi- 

 navia, including Denmark. 



1075. Leucojdm .ESTivuM, Z^■/m. 



Area* 234 [5***** 11 12]. 



South hmit in Dorset, Kent, Berks. 



North limit in Oxon, Bucks, Middlesex ? Suffolk. 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 6. 



Latitude 50 — 53. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Thames or Channel. 



Ascends to 50 yards, less or more, in same provinces. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 49. 



Denizen. Pratal. There appears to be rather more 

 probable ground for holding this plant a native in the 

 south-east of England, than in the case of the Galanthus. 

 Hooker rejects the claims of both, regarding them equally 

 as introduced plants. Babington marks the Leucojum 

 with the sign of "possibly introduced;" and Henslovv al- 

 lows it to pass for a true native. Thus, the two latter 

 botanists may be said to hold converse views of the Galan- 

 thus and Leucojum ; that species which the one of them 

 holds to be native, the other holding as possibly intro- 

 duced, in each case. Other botanists mention some of the 

 localities of the Leucojum in terms which appear to show 

 that it is either native or long and fully established. In 

 the English Flora, on authority of Curtis, it is said to be 

 "undoubtedly wild" close by the Thames between Green- 

 wich and Woolwich. In the Magazine of Zoology and 

 Botany, vol. i. p. 499, the late Mr. D. Cooper wrote that 

 " a meadow of this beautiful plant is to be seen at the 

 bend of the river Thames, directly opposite to the Plough 



