1(U bid. GRAMINA. 



several times by different botanists. (See Report B. S. 

 Ed. in Bot. Gaz. iii. 112). 



1384. Gastkidium lendigerum. Gaud. 



Area 12 3 4 5 6 [7]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Norfolk, Warwick, Glamorgan. 



Estimate of provinces 6. Estimate of counties 20. 



Latitude 50 — 53. English tj'pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 yards, or upwards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 49. 



Native. Agrestal, &c. On the testimony of Mr. Grif- 

 fith (in B. G.) this grass is said to occur in Denbigh and 

 Flint ; but while unsupported by the authority of any 

 other botanist, it appears safer not to rely upon the locali- 

 ties which Mr. Griffith supposed to belong to G. lendi- 

 gerum. Its existence so far northward, however, is not 

 to be held very improbable, independently of the want of 

 sufficiently good authority. Though usually found on or 

 near the coast, it is also occasionallylan inland plant. In 

 Kent and Surrey, I have seen it about the margins of 

 woods, and in sterile pastures where the soil is an admix- 

 ture of sand and clayey loam, wet and adhesive in winter, 

 baking hard and dry in summer. More an eastern, than 

 a western, species, while its occurrence in the provinces 

 of Severn, Peninsula, and South Wales, must remove it 

 from the Germanic to the English type of distribution. 



