44. COMPOSITiE. 57 



localities ; giving only the general habitat of " mountainous 

 districts." Is there not some error about Leicestershire ? 

 Mr. Babington gives the name of the Rev. A. Bloxam as 

 that of the local authority for his Leicestershire specimen ; 

 but specimens sent to the Botanical Society of London, by 

 the latter botanist, as " H. Schmidtii ? " cannot be the spe- 

 cies described in the Manual, and answer much better to 

 H. sylvaticum. The formula has been filled in as well as 

 the slender supply of information could enable this to be 

 done ; but the true distribution cannot be properly indi- 

 cated at present. The estimate of provinces and counties 

 cannot be yet made, unless by way of mere conjecture. 

 The latitude is set down by the first lines southward of 

 Leicestershire, northward of Forfarshire ; those two being 

 the most distant counties in which localities have been 

 stated. With the exception of Netherseal, in Leicester- 

 shire, all the localities are on or about mountains ; and 

 therefore the Highland type is indicated. It is on account 

 of the alleged occurrence of the plant in the latter county, 

 that a trifling elevation, the inferagrarian zone, and the 

 temperature of 48, are considered to be within its range of 

 climate, &c. The midarctic zone, the altitude of 800 yards, 

 or so, and the temperature of 39, are deduced fi-om Mr. 

 Gardiner's locality (Flo. Forf.) of Canlochen rocks. 



^^y^f /i ./:f^ 573. HiERACiUM sylvaticum, 



Sm. 



Area general .? 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Outer Hebrides, Sutherland, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Est. of counties 75 or 80. 



Latitude 50 — 59. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



