41. RUBIACEiE. 23 



'^ /^^'^'^. ^. ^fiy ASPERULA TAURINA, Lintl. 



Area (8 * * * 12). 



Alien. " From Miss Worthington's shrubbery at Cadeby, 

 near Market Bosworth, 1836, — who stated that Dr. Power 

 had found it growing wild in the Cow Pastures, near Market 

 Bosworth, and had brought it into the shrubbery." (Rev. A. 

 Bloxam.) Mr. Babington also mentions that it occurs in 

 Casterton woods, Westmoreland, on the authority of the 

 Rev. R. Blunt. 



527. AsPERULA ODORATA, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Sutherland, Isle of Skye. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 400 yards, in East Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 43. 



Native. Sylvestral. Unrecorded from Orkney and He- 

 brides, and a single locality only is indicated in the Flora 

 of Shetland. I have seen it up to 350 yards in North 

 Wales, but not so high as this in the Highlands. 



AsPERULA ARVENSis, Linn. 



Area (1 * 3 * 10). 



Alien or Incognit. Scarce deserving to be kept among 



