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monstrosities. Mr. Malleson thinks that he has collected 

 U. strictus in Sussex. 



t^ /^y^y'^y.y^. 4r^r^ 250. Ulex nanus, Forst. 



t Ulex provincialis, Lois, f 



Area 12345678 9^10 11 12^ 13 [14 15]. 



South hmit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Galloway (south of Scotland). 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English tj-pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagi-arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 150 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 



Native. Ericetal and Glareal. Stunted examples of 

 Ulex europajus having several times been mistaken for the 

 present species, doubts and uncertainty arise in tracing its 

 range and area. Though the authorities are scarce suffi- 

 cient to convince, there seems sufficient probability of its 

 occmTence in the provinces of Humber and Lakes, to 

 justify the estimate of 12, rather than 10, for the proWncial 

 census. Sir W. C. Trevelyan first called my attention to 

 the eiTors respecting this plant, which had led me to state 

 its distribution quite inaccm-ately in the 'Outlines.' At the 

 date of that volume, the Edinburgh botanists were apply- 

 ing the name of 'nanus' to small examples of U. em'opaeus, 

 fi-om the Braid and Pentland HUls ; and finding the same 

 dwarfed forms prevailing at the highest altitudes in North 

 Wales, I stated that " the dwai-f autumnal-flowering variety 

 generally exceeds the common one by 200 feet in North 

 Wales." The accurate Mr. J. E. Bowman, of North 

 Wales, appears to have made the like mistake, waiting me 



