148 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
The conditions of the life of Jacquin’s oxlip will be better a 
occupies in this country and of its relation to the primrose a 
’ cowslip within, or surrounding, its area of occupation. The prin- 
cipal portion of the ground on which it is native is included within 
the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge, Hertford, and Hunting- 
don. The line of railway from Linton to Haverhill bisects the area 
in two nearly equal Ls aor ie ore two hundred square 
miles each. No towns of a nor rivers or canals, are 
met with on this area; various os iting of caleuy surround it, but only 
Area of occupation in England of the ial Primula elatior, Jacq 
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The Oxhp is contined to the two clotted areas, & to the two spots marked * 
three cross it at its narrowest parts. Its avoidance by towns, rail- 
ways, and canals brings out one of the special features of the oxlip 
ae namely, that it consists of an upland district—the watershed 
ose portions of the counties which it occupies. It is rare to 
find the oxlip descending below the level of two hundred feet above 
the sea ; accordingly, it is looked for in vain in the valleys which 
fatter Scien above tha two hundred feet contour-ine 
feature disclosed by its place of growth is that it is a woodland 
t. It is ‘“‘love’s labour lost” to akohs for it iting river 
