39. LORANTHACEiE. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES. 



(continued.) 



/^^ -^^"^v/ /. 503. ViscuM ALBUM, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 * 7 8 (9) 10 (11 * -* * 15). 



South limit in Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Yorkshire, Denbighshire, Dm-ham r 



Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50—55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native. Sylvestral (pai-asitic). To many of its recorded 

 locahties the Mistletoe has doubtless been introduced as 

 an object of curiosity with cultivators of plants. The late 

 Mr. J. E. Bowman included it in his list of plants near 

 Wrexham ; and there are various authorities for its occur 

 rence in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire. The 

 Flora of Liverpool is my only authority for the province 

 of Mersey, and the two localities, there indicated, read 

 rather suspiciously. Of the four localities recorded in the 

 Flora of Northumberland and Durham, two are expressly 

 stated to be garden-introductions ; a third is given on im- 

 perfect memory; while the fourth, on authority of the Rev. 

 Mr. Coates, is mentioned without comment. More north- 

 ward we find the two recorded localities of "woods of 

 Mickleour, Scotland" (Hook. Flo. Scot.), and "woods of 



