ADDITIONAL SPECIES, ETC. 855 



Ascends to 100 oi* SCO yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Denizen. Agrestal, &c. The cultivation of this Fedia 

 for three successive seasons, during which a very few 

 original seeds, brought by Mr. Henfrey from Devon, pro- 

 duced many hundreds of the plants, and among which 

 none assumed the characters of F. olitoria, obliges me to 

 regard it as a distinct species. Whether a genuine native 

 of Britain, or an escape from cultivation, remains to be 

 settled. The only spot in which I have myself hitherto 

 found F. carinata, was on the outside bank of a wooden 

 fence dividing an old garden from a lane, in Long Dittou, 

 Surrey. Dr. Bromfield wrote me that Mr. E. Forster's 

 station for it, at Marden Ash, near Ongar, is on a garden 

 wall, and that he did not doubt its being an escape from 

 cultivation there. Mr. Buckman reports it as if a frequent 

 weed in fields on the Cotteswold hills, in Gloucestershire ; 

 but Mr. Prentice intimated to me that Mr. Buckman had 

 mistaken F. dentata for the present species ; which is pro- 

 bable enough, as other species of the ' Botany of Chelten- 

 ham ' unavoidably tend to excite strong suspicion that 

 Mr. Buckman is not always correct in the specific names 

 of plants. I possess specimens from Salop (Rev. W. R. 

 Crotch) and Denbigh (Mr. J. E. Bowman). Kent is indi- 

 cated on the authority of Mr. Babington ; and York, on 

 that of Mr. William Francis, in Bot. Gaz. ii. 228. At 

 present, the provincial and comital estimates can be little 

 better than guesses. (See vol. ii. page 27.) 



536. Fedia Auricula, DC. 



Area 1 2 3 * 5 6 * * * 10 * * * * 15. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



