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Ascends, at the sea level, to East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 63 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. Interruptedly scattered along the 

 coasts of England, and still more local in Scotland. The 

 Lake province is far from an unlikely habitat ; hut it is 

 excluded above because the only station for it on record 

 appears to be that of the Botanist's Guide, on the autho- 

 rity of the Rev. J. Dodd, who is reported to have found 

 the plant " in barley crops " ; from which, it may be su]d- 

 posed, that Mr. Dodd intended some other species of 

 grass. Li Forfarshire, according to George Don in 

 Hooker's Flora Scotica, but omitted from Gardiner's 

 Flora of the county, though its certain occurrence on the 

 coast of Fife lends that degree of countenance to Don's 

 habitat, which might be held an indirect confirmation of 

 it, if he were not the witness to so many other unverified 

 and much-more-to-be-suspected localities. For the North 

 Isles, there is only the authority of Lowe's Orkney list. 



1328. PoA ANNUA, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 

 Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 

 Latitude 50 — 61. British tj^pe of distribution. 

 A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Superarctic zones. 

 Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 Ascends to 1100 yards, in East Highlands. 

 Range of mean annual temperatui'e 52 — 36. 

 Native. Agrestal, &c. Of all our native plants tliis 

 one is perhaps the most near to universal distribution in 

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