86. GRAivnNA. 155 



introduced". Included as an Orkney plant in Lowe's 

 list ; but in that of Mr. Syine it is named as a species 

 perhaps introduced. Babington and Balfour (Cat. Hebr.) 

 appear to have seen it in the Hebrides only in the suspi- 

 cioixs habitat of Roddal. In the Moray Flora, it is held 

 doubtfully native of that county. I have a note of seeing 

 it at Farr, on the north coast of Sutherland, but do not 

 recollect the conditions under which it was seen there. 

 The name occurs in Trevelyan's list of Faroe plants ; 

 and the species is widel}'' distributed in Scandinavia. 

 These two latter habitats may be considered indirectly to 

 support the view of the species being truly native in the 

 northern provinces of Scotland. 



/,it^ /^'^■^'^(^/S/a 1274. Phleum arenarium, hxnn. 



Area 1 3 3 4 * 6 7 f 9 10 11 12 * 14 15. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Banff, Aberdeen, Isle of Man. 



Estimate of provinces 13. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 58. English (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Littoral, Glareal. As with Carex arenaria, 

 tliis plant of the sandy shores is said to be occasionally 

 found on sandy commons inland. Is there no locality for 

 it on the western side of Scotland ? Though extending 

 over a wide range of latitude, it is so partial in Scotland, 

 and so rare beyond the line of 57 latitude, that the 

 EngUsh tj^pe seems to characterize its distribution better 

 than the British. It might, however, be almost as well 



