226 86. GRAMINA. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral. Frequently growing along with 

 B. giganteus, and their names appear to be sometimes 

 misapplied from one to the other, especially by botanists 

 who use descriptive Floras or lists in which these two 

 closely resembHng grasses are i)laced mider different ge- 

 nera, — Festuca and Bromus. Both alike fall short of 

 attaining to the full area of the British type, by their 

 absence from the two most northerly provinces, according 

 to existing records. 



1350. Bromus sterilis, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of "Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Aberdeen, Dumbarton. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Glareal. In the Moray Flora this is marked 

 as an imcertainly indigenous species ; and it appears to 

 be of so infrequent occurrence in the Highland provinces 

 as to approximate nearly to the English tjipe of distribu- 

 tion. I am not prepared to adduce any authority for its 

 occurrence in the West Highland province; but in the 

 Flora of Glasgow it is stated to be " frequent," and may 

 thus be presumed to occur in Dumbarton as weU as Lanark 

 shire. In the Catalogue of the Edinburgh Botanical 



