86. GEAMINA. 239 



1364. LoLiuM TEMULENTUM, Linn. 



1364, b. LOLIUM ARVENSE, With. 



Ai-ea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 16 * (18). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Aberdeen, Argyle. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 200 yards, in England. 



Kange of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Colonist. Agrestal. Occasionally met with throughout 

 Britain, though probably of foreign origin, and introduced 

 among seeds inaported for agricultural purposes. In the 

 south of England it has become an established weed, al- 

 though even there its appearance in any given locality is 

 uncertain and mostly temporary. Imported into Shetland, 

 according to Mr. Edmondston, the only authority for its 

 occurrence in the province of North Isles. L. arvense of 

 English botanists differs solely by the shorter or wholly 

 absent awn. 



LoLiuM LiNicoLA, Sond. 



Area *2**ifcjfe***10. 



Alien. Tliis has been quite lately distinguished from 

 L. arvense (With.) by Mr. Mitten, who found it at Hui'st- 

 pierpoint, in Sussex; and it is said to have been also 

 gathered by Mr. James Ward, near Catterick bridge, in 

 Yorkshire. Likely enough it may be found in other parts 



