42 44. COMPOSITE. 



Native. Viatical, Septal, &c. Thinly scattered from the 

 south coast of England northward into the low tracts in the 

 south-east Highlands, as at Stirling, Kinnoul, Dunkeld. So 

 rare towards the westera coasts of England that it seems 

 proper to consider the species as one of the Germanic type ; 

 although recorded from three of the western provinces, on 

 authority which will pass unchallenged ; and likewise enu- 

 merated in the Faunula Gmstensis as a native of North 

 Wales. 



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555. Lactuca Scariola, Linn. ^ f^'^- ^^^- /^-^^"^ 



Area *^ 3 4 /* * [8]. 



South limit in Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Cambridge, Suffolk ? 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 6. 



Latitude 50 — 54. Gennanic type of distribution. 



Agi-arian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel province. 



Ascends to 50 yards, more or less, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native ? Viatical, &c. A very local plant, and perhaps 

 made to appear more frequent than is real by the distribu- 

 tion above indicated. The few English specimens which 

 have been sent to me, under this name, have proved either 

 L. virosa or L. saligna ; and as the same locality is occa- 

 sionally given for two different species, by two observers, 

 respectively one for each, great doubt must attach thereto. 

 Has been reported from the counties of Sussex (Rev. W. 

 W, Newbould), Kent (Mr. E. Forster, in B. G.), Surrey 

 (Mr. W. Pamplin, in N. B. G.), Middlesex (Mr. E. Forster, 

 in B. G.), Suffolk (Winch notes, in N. B. G.), Cambridge 

 (Hcnslow's Catalogue, &c.), Derby (Mr. J. Martin, in B. G.) 



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