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Botanical Gazette (No. 1, p. 6), Mr. Babiugton mentions 

 that the variety ' integrifolia,' the Scabiosa pubescens of 

 Willdenow, has been found at Cherry Hinton, in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, along with the connecting links which unite it 

 with K. arvensis. 



544. Tragopogon pratensis ("Zmw.") Aut. Aug. 

 544, b. Tragopogon minor, Fries. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 H * 13 14 15 * 17. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in North-west Sutherland, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 59. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian— Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 46. 



Native. Pratal. I have never seen specimens of more 

 than two species of Tragopogon in Britain, namely, T. por- 

 rifolius and the present one, which is recorded in books 

 under the several names of T. pratensis (most authors, up 

 to 1830), of T. major (some few writers between 1830 — 40), 

 and T. minor (several recent authors). I cannot positively 

 assert that these three latter names invariably mean one 

 and the same single species, but usually they do so. The 

 comparative length of involucrum and florets is very incon- 

 stant in the living specimens which grow intermingled, 

 and have no other available distinction ; and this uncer- 

 tainty is augmented by the process of pressing the speci- 

 mens for preservation, which apparently elongates the more 

 advanced florets, though it is only by protruding them 

 upwards from the fruit or receptacle. The probability that 



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