288 23. LEGUMINOS.E. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Denizen. Viatical, &c. Not a common plant, although 

 it occurs pretty frequently in the southern provinces, par- 

 ticularly near the coast; and it may be truly a native in 

 England. Scarce, and dubiously indigenous in Scotland. 

 Is said to occur occasionally on the Inch, at Aberdeen ; 

 but I do not include that locality in the latitudinal range, 

 on account of the great probability that the species has 

 been originally carried thither from some more southern 

 locality. Hooker and Babington both allow this to be a 

 true native. Probably several of the* localities, formerly . 

 put on record for this species, may belong to M. alba, 



265. MELiL0TUs(ALBAy"De9r." ^' ^^■'•^^V-^y^ 



Area U 2 3 4 5 6 * * 9 10 11 12 * 14)</r/ 

 Alien. Both Hooker and Babington enumerate this as 

 a true native. On my own part, I have hesitated whether 

 to unite it with the ' denizens ' or ' colonists,' rather than to 

 throw it into the rank of an ' alien ' ; but the fugitive en- 

 durance, and the suspicious nature of its localities, induce 

 a change of opinion from that indicated on p. 63. I think 

 that it is somewhere mentioned, as occuring near Plymouth, 

 but I find no memorandum to this effect among my notes. 

 In the 'Botany of Poole,' Dr. Salter gives only the locality 

 of the " ballast quay Ham ; " which reads suspiciously 

 enough. In a catalogue of the plants of the Isle of Wight, 

 given to me by Dr. Bromfield, it is marked as an introduced 

 species. Occurs in several places in Surrey, and may still 

 be seen along the hues of the South-western and the Rich- 

 mond Railways; particularly about Wandsworth, and 

 nearer the Terminus at Nine Elms. From some other 



