44. COMPOSlTiE. 55 



Findhoni, near FoiTes, in Moray, in July, 1844 ; and he 

 intimated that he had subsequently seen a specimen fiom 

 Breadalbane, in Dr. Balfour's herbarium, " placed in the 

 same sheet with H. Lawsoni, fiom which species it is, how- 

 ever, quite distinct." Again, in the same periodical, vol. ii. 

 p, 434, Mr. Borrer writes, while alluding to one of his bo- 

 tanical tours in Westmoreland, " Stockgill is rich in Hiera- 

 cia of the murorum group. Among them is one which I 

 fancy may be H. nudicaule of Edmondston. I gathered 

 the same by the Findhom, and by some other Highland 

 streams, in 1810; but I have never satisfied myself about 

 it. I hope now to study it under cultivation." Under 

 these circumstances, it is curious that Mr. C. C. Babington 

 has not noticed Edmondston's plant in the second edition 

 of his Manual, which is so complete an epitome of British 

 botany in most respects. The plant will probably prove 

 to be an example of H. muromm, giown in a shaded spot. 



A*', /i^./- 4r^ 572. HiERACiUM MURORUiM, Linn. 



Area general .'' 



South limit in Devon, Dorset, Sussex. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagi-arian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so, in Channel. 



Ascends to 850 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 38. 



Native. Rupestral, Septal. My notes show no localities 

 for this species in the provinces of South Wales or the 

 Mersey, which appear so likely to produce it that the Area 

 is above interrogatively given as general. In books the H. 



