316 ADDITIONAL SPECIES, ETC. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to 100 yards, less or more. 



Range of mean annual temperatui'e 50 — 47. 



Native ? Agrestal. Professor Arnott still unites these 

 as one single species. Mr. Babington, who formerly 

 united them, now describes them as two species. I am 

 myself still unprepared to distinguish them in a satisfac- 

 tory manner; and am also quite unable to assign the 

 several localities on record, under one or other name, 

 correctly to the right variety or species. Some of the 

 stations formerly reported for F. j)arviflora by name, be- 

 long to F. micrantha only ; while in some other instances 

 small forms of F. officinalis have been reported as F. par- 

 viflora. Thus, this latter name has a most vague and 

 incorrect signification in reference to the stations on re- 

 cord. One or other of these two alleged species may be 

 said to occur certainly in Kent (Mr. A. Henfrey), Surrey 

 (Herb. Hook.), Essex (Mr. G. S. Gibson), Suffolk (Mr. C. 

 J. F. Bimbury), Cambridge (Mr. C. C. Babington), Hun- 

 tingdon (Eev. W. W. Newbould), and Edinburgh (Brit. 

 Flora, &c.) It is reported also for Dorset (Dr. Salter), 

 Hants (Mr. WiUiam Whale), Sussex (N. B. G.), Norfolk 

 (Messrs. Paget), York (Baines' Flora), Forfar (Mr. WiUiam 

 Brand), Moray (Outlines Geog. Distrib.), and Shetland 

 (Mr. Edmondston). The plant of Moray was F. micran- 

 tha ; that of Sussex was F. officinalis or micrantha ; and 

 so, probably, with some of the other counties here se- 

 condly enumerated. Not unlili;ely that the provincial 

 and comital estimate may be given too low, although it 

 is taken higher than trusty records wiU at present confirm. 

 (See vol. i. page 113.) 



