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18. Formerly found on ballast hills in the province of 

 Tyne ; where it is now extinct. 



' ///L.ifaf ■ 269. Trifolium ochroleucum, Linn. 



Area [1 2] 3 4 [5 ** 8 ,. 10 11]. 



South limit in Kent (or Sussex). A«* * ^^^e^/^/^A-AAyj 



North limit in Norfolk and near Stamford. 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 9. 



Latitude 51 — 53. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Thames province. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in Thames or Ouse. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 48. 



Native. Glareal ? Considerable uncertainty and some 

 errors attend the distribution of this plant, as recorded in 

 books. In preparing the New Guide, a locality \Yas acci- 

 dently misplaced to this species, instead of T. maritimum, 

 under the county of Somerset. Pulteney says " I have col- 

 lected this in Dorset, but am uncertain where ; " and it is 

 enumerated in Dr. Salter's (partly, compiled) list of plants 

 within 16 miles of Poole. In Hasting's 'Illustrations,' we 

 are informed that it grows " on the Link, at Malvern ; " 

 and Mr. Lees says that it is "not common" in Worcester- 

 shire (N. B. G.). A single specimen is stated to have been 

 found in a clover field, near Ripon, in Yorkshire. It has 

 also occured on ballast hills, in the province of Tyne. 

 These are all insufficient reasons or authorities for retain- 

 ing the first, second, fifth, tenth and eleventh provinces in 

 the area of the species. By Hudson, it is intimated that 

 the plant has been found near Stamford, which is a suf- 

 ficiently probable locality. But that town being just on 

 the borders of the Ouse province, although on the Trent 



