28-2 23. LEGUMINOS.E. 



256. Ononis reclinata, Linn. A^ m.^^^.Ji./^^^^ 



Area (13). 



Alien. " Among the debris at the foot of the clift" over- 

 hanging the rocky shore, on the west side of the Mull of 

 Galloway. It is undoubtedly wild." (Professor Graham, 

 1835.). If I am not mistaken, Dr. Graham afterwards 

 expressed a much less confident opinion on the nativity 

 of the plant in Scotland. Ononis ramosissima was found 

 on ballast heaps, in Fifeshire, in 1834; but is stated to 

 have since disappeared. - .r^^^^- ^-^ ^ *- (^'^■^>K^. -^^ 



257. Anthyllis vulneraria, Linn. 



Area, general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50—61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 800 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 38. 



Native. Pascual and Rupestral. I find this plant re- 

 corded from 55 counties only ; being one not usually in- 

 cluded in the lists of the ' rarer plants.' But as it is | 

 mentioned in 19 of the 20 local Floras (London Catalogue) 

 and extends the whole length and breadth of Britain, we 

 may fairly infer that it is not likely to be absent from more 

 than a few of those counties for which we still want local 

 lists of their common species. It is, however, not so 



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