43. DIPSACE^E. 29 



consequently gibbous, and then I do not see in what it 

 would differ from V. dentata." (Dr. Bronifield, in Phytol. 

 iii. 428.) I have not seen the Fedia eriocarpa from Caer- 

 narvonshire. Sir William Hooker and Mr. William Wilson 

 both are now said to consider it a variety of F. dentata. 

 The other recorded localities for F. eriocarpa, in Yorkshire 

 and Isle of Wight, belong to F. mixta. 



DiPSACUS FuLLONUM, Linn. 



Area (1 * * * 5 * * * 9 10 11 * 13 14 15). 



Alien. Occasionally seen as a waif from cultivation ; 

 but I suspect that some of the published localities really 

 belong to D. sylvestris. /^4 *^ 'U-^Ti'^yS^ c^ -=- £,^^^,.^1^3 

 ^.„^ 4 Ay_ /t. />^. :>. /. /?z . ^. /. 



539. DiPSACUS SYLVESTRIS, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 * 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Fife, Dumbarton. (Introduced ?) 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 57. 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 52 — 47. 



Native. Septal, Viatical, &c. Apparently a very local 

 plant in Scotland, and by no means clearly indigenous 

 there. I possess a specimen from Dr. Joseph Hooker, lo- 

 calized from Dumbartonshire, which is ray sole authority 

 for the West Highlands. The Rev. G. Gordon pronounces 

 it certainly introduced into Moray (Collectanea) ; and Mr. 



