34 44. COMPOSIT.E. 



this may be found in the province of Lakes or West High- 

 lands, seems to justify the addition of one of them to the 

 estimate of provinces. 



545. Tragopogon porrifolius, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 (6 7 8 9 10) * [12 13 * 15]. 



South limit in Cornwall ? Somerset, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Monmouth, Essex, — or Stafford, Norfolk. 



Estimate of provinces 6. Estimate of counties 12. 



Latitude 50—52 (53). English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Denizen. Pratal, Paludal. Native or established about 

 the coasts of the southern provinces ; but very doubtful in 

 its reported localities farther north than the coasts adjacent 

 to the Thames and Severn estuaries. Miss Harvey sent a 

 flowering specimen of T. porrifolius with a fruiting speci- 

 men of T. minor (as they seem to be, but in very bad 

 condition for determination) to the Botanical Society of 

 London, labelled as if collected on Burntisland. This is 

 ray sole authority for the province of East Highlands; 

 and experience has amply vrarned me against implicit 

 reliance on the localities stated in the labels distributed 

 with specimens from the lady named ; since it is quite ob- 

 vious to me, that she has no just appreciation of the neces- 

 sity for accuracy in such matters. The Flora Glottiana is 

 the authority for the AVest Lowlands ; Nicholson, in the 

 publication of Dillenius, that for the Lakes ; and Gerarde, 

 as quoted in Bot. Guide, for the Mersey. 



