80. GEAMINA. 243 



J. Neill," it was recorded to grow on or by Salisbury 

 Craigs, Edinburgh ; but I looked for it there in vain, and 

 it is not numbered as a plant of that neighbourhood in 

 the Catalogue published by the Botanical Society of Edin- 

 bui^gh. " About Edinbui-gh and Ayr " (Brit. Flo. edit. 6). 

 Does it truly gi'ow wild about Ajt ? The Lake province 

 would seem not unlikely to produce this sijecies. 



1368. HoEDEUM MURiNUM, Linn. 



Ai-ea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * * 14 15 * * [18]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Kincardine, Forfar, Fife, Lancaster. 



Estimate of i^rovinces 16. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English tj'pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. LiferagTarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the sea level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, m England. 



Range of mean annual tempei'atiu'e 52 — 47. 



Native. Glareal, &c. A frequent English grass, be- 

 coming rare or local in Scotland. Indeed, there is a 

 remark in the Flora Scotica, that " Mr. Arnott thinks it 

 is not found to the north of the Fii-th of Forth." It would 

 thus aj)j)ear to have been very Httle kno^ni in Scotland 

 thirtj' years ago. But, at that time, Scottish botanj' was 

 very little known. Mr. George Lawson says that H. mu- 

 rmum is abundant about ruins and old buildings in St. 

 Andi-ews, Fifeshire ; and by the Flora of Forfarshii-e we 

 learn that it is plentiful along the coast of that coimty. 

 It is stated also to occur plentifully a mile from Bervie, 

 in Kincardineshii-e. In Moray it is a plant " certainly 

 introduced", according to the Rev. George Gordon. The 

 name is included in Lowe's List of Orkney plants. 



