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land and Caithness ; though I am tempted to suppose that 

 I may have passed it by, unnoted, in the latter counties. 

 In Moray, it is said to be frequent, but not very common ; 

 about the town of Aberdeen, common ; about Edinburgh, 

 very common ; about Glasgow, occasionally. The name 

 does not occur in my lists of species observed in various 

 valleys of the Grampian mountains ; though duly entered 

 in those made about the towns of Stirling, Perth, and In- 

 verness. 



<^'^/.^-4^^ 261, Medicago maculata, Sibth. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5* 7 8-1 10 (11 * * -* 15). 

 P South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Yorkshire, Caernarvonshire, Anglesea. 



Estimate of provinces 9. Estimate of counties 25. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 



Native. Agrestal or Viatical. A scarce plant, excep- 

 ting in some of the southern and south-eastern counties. 

 The East Highland province is numbered in the area, on 

 account of a locality or two in Fifeshire, whither it has 

 probably been carried ; and the same may be inferred re- 

 specting the localities in the province of Tyne; namely, 

 on ballast hills, and under the Banqueting House at Aln- 

 wick. The locality of Scarbourgh is cited in the Flora of 

 Yorkshire ; and the plant is said to be common about 

 Nottingham. 



