30 43. DIPSACE^. 



Gardiner does not deem it indigenous in Forfarshire, though 

 said to have occurred in that county. Dr. Gilbert Macnab 

 found it " in immense profusion," between Dysart and 

 Weems, in 1834 ; and there are other localities given for 

 it in the counties of Fife and Edinburgh. Introduced to 

 the neighbourhood of Berwick, and not established in any 

 permanent station. Omitted from the Floras of Aberdeen, 

 Lanark, and Glasgow ; unless the " D. Fullonum," of the 

 latter publication, should really intend D. sylvestris. Fre- 

 quent or common in the South of England. 



540. DiPSACUs PiLOSUS, Linn. 



Area 12345*789 10 (11)*** [15]. 



South limit in Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in York, Chester, Flint, Denbigh. 



Estimate of provinces 9. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 55. Germanic 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 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral. Looking to the provincial area, as 

 above set forth, it might appear that this plant should be 

 referred to the English, rather than to the Germanic, type 

 of distribution. But its apparent absence from the two 

 most westerly counties of the Peninsula, as also from the 

 six counties of South Wales, indicates a decided approxi- 

 mation to the eastern or Germanic type, although shading 

 off towards the English type likewise. 



