40. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 11 



Henslow's Catalogue, it is given as " possibly introduced 

 by the agency of man." Mr. Borrer, Mr. Babington, Dr. 

 Bromfield, each deem it " tioily wild " in Sussex. But a 

 species may be truly wild at the present day, and yet have 

 been introduced by human agency originally; though I 

 suppose that we are to understand the opinions of the three 

 botanists above named, as implying a conviction in favour 

 of the shrub being truly native ; and in reliance on their 

 opinions, the formula has been drawn up accordingly. As 

 an introduced species, it occurs under a temperature of 47 

 or 46 degrees. Possibly wild in Hertfordshire ; for which, 

 see Flora Hertfordiensis, page 133. 



511. LlNN^A BOREALIS, GrOflOV. 



Area **********!!** 14 15 j^ 17. 



South limit in Northumberland or Bei-wickshire. 



North limit in Ross, Moray, Banff, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 10. 



Latitude 55 — 58. Scottish type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Midagi-arian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to a moderate altitude, say 100 yards. 



Ascends to 800 or 850 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 46 — 38. 



Native. Sylvestral. This little plant, so much a favorite 

 with botanists, has been found in the counties of Northmu- 

 berland, Bel-wick, Edinburgh, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine, 

 Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, and Ross, and to these ten, per- 

 haps, it might not have been deemed too hasty to make an 

 addition, by setting down the estimate at 12. Apparently 

 absent from the western side of Scotland ; and unknown 

 in England, except for the single locality " in a ])lantation 

 of Scotch Firs, at C'atchersidc, in the parish of Haitburn" 



