152 86. GRAMINA. 



have naturalized itself on the southern coast of England, 

 although but imperfectly. 



Phalaris paradoxa, Linn. 

 ("Aloj)ecurus utriculatus.") 



Area [* 2]. 



Alien. Extinct. Found by Mr. Hussey, in a field near 

 Swanage, in 1847. It had disappeared in 1848, probably 

 on account of a change of crop. The circumstance of its 

 having been at first mistaken for Alopecurus (or Phalaris) 

 utriculatus, has caused this latter name to appear among 

 those of plants erroneously reported as English, like the 

 Swertia and Bufonia ; but there seems no call to make a 

 separate paragraph for the A. utriculatus here ; the name 

 having scarcely got into works on British botany, except 

 as an acknowledged error. 



1271. Anthoxanthum ODOEATUiM, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North Kmit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 1150 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 35. 



Native. Pratal, Sylvestral, &c. One among the com- 

 monest and most generally distributed of British grasses ; 

 but seldom observed in the superarctic zone. 



