46 44. COMPOSIT.E. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Infer agrarian — Superagi-arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatui'e 52 — 45. 



Native. Agrestal, &c. Having only quite lately been 

 well distinguished from S. oleraceus, by English botanists, 

 this species would appear much less frequent than S. ole- 

 raceus, by its recorded habitats strictly kept to. But 

 having been already reported from about half the total 

 number of counties, and from the south coast of England 

 to the extreme north of Scotland or adjacent Isles, the 

 generahty of its distribution, both by provinces and by 

 counties, may be assumed so long as no probable exception 

 is made apparent. 



561. SONCHUS OLERACEUS, LiuP. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Caithness. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagi'arian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 350 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 



Native. Agrestal, &c. This species and S. asper usually 

 grow intenningled ; but some of the habitats recorded un- 

 der name of the present species, especially those of old 

 date, may perhaps produce only S. asper. Balfour and 

 Babington appear to have noticed only the latter in the 



