80. GRAMINA. 151 



1269. Phalabis akundinacea, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit iii Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Caithness. 



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 250 or 300 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 44. 



Native. Paludal. This usually common plant was un- 

 noticed by Dr. BaKour and Mr. Babington, during their 

 excursion to the Hebrides in 1841, and hence the above 

 estimate of 81 rather than 82. To remind botanists of 

 the counties for which our lists of the commoner British 

 plants are most deficient, it may not be amiss to enume- 

 rate the few in which the present species has not been 

 noted or published ; namely, those of Berks, Cardigan, 

 Brecon, Radnor, Montgomery, Merioneth, Westmoreland, 

 Man, Wigton, Ayr, Peebles, Selkirk, Haddington, Lin- 

 lithgow, Stu-ling, Sutherland, Hebiides ; in all, or nearly 

 all, of which it may faiiiy be supposed to gi-ow. 



1270. Phalaris Canariensis, Linn. 



Area (1 2 3 4 5 6 * 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15). 



Alien. Being much carried about Britain as food for 

 caged bu-ds, the ' Canary Grass ' fi-equently appears as a 

 waif or straggler near houses, and also in places resorted 

 to by bird-catchers. In some degree, it may be said to 



