54 8-4. JUNOACE^. 



1170. LuzuLA PiLOSA, Willd. 



1170, b. LuzuLA BoREERi, Bromf. -^A-^y^, 



Ai-ea general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orknej^ Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 81. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 400 yards, or upwards, in E. Highlands. 



Bange of mean annual temperature 52 — 43, 



Native. Sylvestral. This species will likely be found 

 in the inferarctic zone, and 100 or 200 yards higher than 

 the indication of altitude above given, L. Borreri is an 

 obscure plant, first noticed by Dr. Bromfield, in the Isle 

 of Wight. He transmitted specimens to me, and in re- 

 turn I immediately sent liim others from SiuTey, which 

 he admitted to be the same form or species. It was soon 

 afterwards found in Sussex, by Mr. Borrer, and in Here- 

 fordshire, by Mr. Purchas. It was taken up as a species 

 in the third edition of the Manual of British Botany, 

 where Mr. Babington has unfortunately described the 

 seeds of ordinary L. pilosa for those of L. Borreri. This 

 error, originating in an accidental inadvertence of Mr, 

 Purchas, has been corrected by the latter botanist in the 

 Botanical Gazette, iii, 99. But Mr. Purchas has there 

 described the supposed seeds of L. Borreri in terms which 

 do not accord with my own observations on half-gi'own 

 seeds of a living plant in my garden, received from Dr. 

 Bromfield ; but which has not perfected its seeds during 



