216 86. GRAMINA. 



quantity of a species, which its two discoverers had seen 

 no grounds for supposing to be of foreign and accidental 

 origin in those stations. Thus do so many errors arise, 

 and become pei-petuated, in reference to the existence or 

 nativity of species in Britain. The morbid and faithless 

 vanity, which at times prompts to these treacherous and 

 deceptive records, well deserves to be unspaiingly exposed 

 and condemned. 



1339. Dactylis glomerata, Linn. 



Area general. 



South hmit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit m Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British tyj)e of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 450 yards, in East Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Pratal. The highest points at which I have 

 myself noted this common grass in the Highlands, were 

 at and about 1100 feet, in different stations in Perth and 

 Aberdeen. Professor Dickie records it so high as 1386 

 in the latter county. 



1340. Festuca uNiGLUJns, Sol. 



Area 1234*67*9. 

 South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Lancaster, Anglesea, Suffolk. 

 Estimate of provinces 7. Estimate of counties 15. 



