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have easily eluded the eyes of the many good botanists who 

 had visited the Lizard before the Rev. W. S. Hore ; and 

 Mr. Gibson saw it in leaf only. 



553. Hypochceris radicata, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Orkney, Hebrides, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 81. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 600 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 41. 



Native. Pascual. Seldom seen in the arctic region, 

 but general throughout the agrarian. Its absence from the 

 Flora of Shetland leads to the deduction of one county in 

 the estimate, which might otherwise have been the highest 

 step of the comital series. 



554. Lactdca virosa, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 * 10 11 * * 14 15 * * [18]. 

 South limit in Somerset, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Perth, Stirling. 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 30. 

 Latitude 50 — 57. Germanic type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 

 Descends to the coast level, in Channel province. 

 Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in Scotland. 

 Range of mean annual temperature 51— 47. 



