244 86. GKAI.UNA. 



1.369. HOEDEUM MAEITIMUM, With. 



Area 123456*89 10 11*** [15]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wiglit, Kent. 



North limit ia North Diu'ham (Islanclshire), Chester. 



Estimate of provinces 11. Estimate of counties 20. 



Latitude 50 — 56. English t3'pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the sea level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the sea level, to Tjnie province. 



Range of mean annual temj)erature 52 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. Abimdant in several places on the 

 coasts of England ; hut either often overlooked or very 

 interruptedly distributed, at least, on the western side of 

 the island. I have gathered it on the coast of North 

 Lincolnshire, but have seen no specimen from any more 

 northerlj'^ localitj\ Its existence at all in Scotland is 

 doubtful, and most unsatisfactorily certified. In the Flora 

 Scotica, on authority of George Don, it is reported as 

 found on the coast of Forfarshu-e. In Gardiner's Flora 

 of that county, no station is mentioned ; but the name is 

 entered in the list, with the unsatisfactory addition of the 

 words " on the coast ", without any authority for this 

 vaguely expressed habitat. Did Mr. Gardiner simply 

 borrow this indication from the Flora Scotica ? And did 

 G. Don mistake H. murinum (see that species) for H. ma- 

 ritimum, deceived by the coastwise growth of the latter in 

 Forfarshire ? In the sixth edition of the British Flora, we 

 are told of H. maritimum, that it is " Rare in Scotland 

 and principally found in Angusshii-e." This ought to 

 imi^ly that stations in some other Scottish comity or 

 counties were known to the Editor or Author of the 



