23. LEGUMINOS.E. 287 



morgan. The three or four first may pass undisputed. The 

 county of Somerset is named, because the species is in- 

 cluded in the Flora of Bath, on the faith of Dr. Davis ; and 

 that of Glamorgan, on account of Mr. Lees stating that he 

 " gathered this on the descent of a steep rock in Oxwich 

 Bay, in 1839." (Phytol. i. 378). Without some con- 

 firmation, upon higher or more exact botanical authority, 

 it seems better not to give the M. minima as certainly 

 knovi'n in those two south-western provinces. But to the 

 four eastern counties, enumerated above, possibly that of 

 Surrey may be added, on the faith of specimens, very 

 young and prematurely slirivelled up by drought, which 

 were collected on Epsom Downs, by Mr. Twining. 



MeDICAGO MIIEICATA, All. 



Area [4j. 



Incognit. " At Orford in Suffolk, on the sea-bank, close 

 by the sea, plentifully." (Ray's Synopsis, 333). " I have 

 omitted M. muricata, being convinced from personal ob- 

 servation that no such plant now exists ' on the sea-bank 

 at Orford.' " (Babington's Manual). 



^. ^^/. /.^^^y^ -264. Melilotus officinalis. Lam. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6^ 8^ 10 11 ^ 13 14 15. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in (Aberdeenshire .?), Fifeshire, near Glasgow. 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



