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indeed, even the authority is not quoted. A propos of 

 that Flora, the author must have acted under the worst 

 possible advice, in publishing a local Flora on such a 

 preposterous plan. It is a mere compilation of localities, 

 with all that gave scientific value to them cut away ; that 

 is to say, the localities are copied, and the authorities for 

 them are omitted ! This reduces those cited on the best 

 authority, to the low level of those cited on the worst au- 

 thority ! ! 



267. Trifolium repens, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 900 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 38. 



Native. Pascual. One of our most universally distri- 

 buted species, throughout the agrarian region, and rising 

 to the inferarctic zone on many of the hills ; but seldom 

 seen in the midarctic zone. The popular notion that the 

 application of lime, as a manure to the ground, will pro- 

 duce this species of clover, is doubtless erroneous ; but, 

 like many other popular errors, there may be a semblance 

 of truth in it. Lime is seldom applied to those spots in 

 which this plant is not likely to be already existent, with 

 the exception of corn-fields, where the application of lime 

 is not followed by any particular increase of clover. Fa- 

 voured by the fertilizing or drying qualities of the lime, 



