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Northlimit in Norfolk, Monmouthshire, Merionethshire ? 



Estimate of provinces 6. Estimate of counties 12. 



Latitude 50 — 53. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coasts of the Channel. 



Ascends, on the coast, to the Ouse. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 49. 



Native. Littoral. A scarce plant, though not unlikely 

 to be found in other localities on the western coasts than 

 those hitherto recorded for it. In Cornwall (Maton, in B. 

 G.), Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Norfolk and 

 Monmouthshire ; also in Merionethshire, according to the 

 Rev. W. Wood, in Bot. Guide ; and on the ballast hills, in 

 the province of Tyne. Though not unlikely localities for 

 the plant, it would still be desirable to have those on the 

 coasts of Cornwall and Merioneth confirmed by some 

 modern observer. If truly found in the latter county, it 

 will probably be so in South Wales likewise, and thus raise 

 the provincial estimate to 7 certain ; but since South and 

 North Wales are both uncertain as yet, only one of those 

 provinces is taken into the estimate of 6. 



274. Trifolium stellatum, Linn. 



Area [1] (2) [3]. 



Alien. Has been recorded from the coasts of Somerset, 

 Sussex, Kent and Essex. Three of the counties are pro- 

 bably erroneous ; that of Sussex being correct. Though 

 likely imported originally with ballast, this Trefoil is now 

 almost a denizen. The locality is thus described by Mr. 

 Borrer, in the first volume of the Phytologist : — " It will 

 be satisfactory to your correspondent Mr. Salmon, to learn 

 that Trifolium stellatum is not lost at Shoreham, but still 



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