144 86. GRAMINA. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel. 



Ascends to 50 yards, less or more. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 49. 



Native. Paludal. This recent and very interesting 

 addition to the flora of Britain, was found in several sta- 

 tions in Hants and Sussex, in the years 1844 — 50, by Mr. 

 Borrer, Mr. Mitten, and Dr. Bromfield. In 1851 it was 

 discovered in a second province, that of the Thames, by 

 Mr. A. W. Bennett ; who found it by the bridge over the 

 river Mole at Brockham, in Surrey; and it was in conse- 

 quence shortly afterwards looked for and detected by 

 myself many miles lower down the same river, by the foot 

 bridge between East Molesey Church and Ember Mill 

 (not Mile, as printed in the Botanical Gazette). Various 

 particulars about the localities in Hants and Sussex, 

 and many collateral and suggested remarks, may be seen 

 in the Phytologist, iii. 1098, from the pen of the late Dr. 

 Bromfield ; whose explanatory and anecdotical style of 

 writing was so well suited to that class of periodical Kte- 

 rature, where discursive diflfuseness forms rather a recom- 

 mendation than an objection, and where the condensation 

 and exactness of real science would prove unattractive to 

 the majority of the readers. 



1263. Spaktina steicta. Roth. 



Ai-ea 1 2 3 4 .* * ^ 8. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent. 

 North limit in Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex. 

 Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of comities 8. 

 Latitude 50 — 54. Germanic type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



