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23. LEGUMINOS^. 



Latitude 50 — 57. British (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Pascual. Grows in more wet and stiff soils 

 than L. corniculatus is usually found in ; but the majority 

 of botanists hold it merely a variety of the latter. Though 

 I may confess a decided leaning tovrards the same opi- 

 nion, the difficulty of converting a plant of tenuis into 

 corniculatus opposes a counter argument or fact against 

 that view. Hitherto, I have failed to change the one into 

 the other, under garden culture, after planting the roots in 

 dry ground, and raising the form or species afresh from 

 seeds, two or three times. Being often passed by as a va- 

 riety of L. corniculatus, the area and ranges of this species 

 (if such it be) may be here too low set down and contracted. 



284. Lotus major, Scop. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Aberdeenshire and Argyleshire. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 46. 



Native. Pratal and Sylvestral. Much more contracted 

 in its area and ranges than L. corniculatus, of which it 

 was formerly deemed a large variety ; and, indeed, I have 

 seen specimens to which it was difficult to apply either 



