44 44. COMPOSITiE. 



some of the others which have been hitherto less fully 

 explored. It has been discovered in Moray since the ' Col- 

 lectanea' was published; namely, at Main, near Elgin, 

 where the Rev. G. Gordon deems it not certainly native. 

 An isolated locality, far beyond the limit of a species other- 

 wise, may usually be considered suspicious ; but looking to 

 the altitude attained by the present species in Cumberland, 

 and to the high northern latitude (middle of Sweden and 

 North Russia) attained on the Continent, the province of 

 East Highlands may be considered quite within its natural 

 range of temperature, latitude, &c. 



Prenanthes purpurea, Linn. 



Area (16). 



Alien. Partially naturalized near the Castle [of Dunve- 

 gan?] in Skye. (Balf. and Bab. Ace. Hebr. p. 5.) 



558. SoNCHUS PALUSTRis, Linn. A- ^(^ -f^t . Jl.^jtI , 



Area [1 2] 3 4 [5 * * 8 * * * * * 14]. | 



South limit in Kent. 



North limit in Norfolk, Cambridge, Hunts. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 6. 



Latitude 50 — 53. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Thames province. 



Ascends to 50 yards, or less, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 48. 



Native. Paludal. Very rare ; and I fear it has been re- 

 ported from several counties erroneously, through the mis- 

 taking of S. arvensis, when found in wet ground, for the 



