44. COMPOSIT,E. 71 



Ascends to 400 yards, in E. Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 



Native. Viatical, Agrestal, &c. I have not ventured to 

 give the highest county census for this usually very com- 

 mon species, because it remains unrecorded in the Shetland 

 Flora, and I do not find the name in my own lists of plants 

 observed in Sutherland and Caithness. Still, after ex- 

 cluding Shetland, the presumption appears to be con- 

 siderably in favour of its comital generality in Britain; 

 particularly so as we find it attaining Lapland and Finland 

 on the Continent; although not recorded from Faroe. I 

 have seen it at 350 yards of altitude in Aberdeenshire, and 

 Dr. Dickie says at 400 yards in the same county. Possi- 

 bly we may both refer to the same locality, that of the cul- 

 tivated fields between Castletown and the Dee; as Dr. 

 Dickie appears often to calculate the altitudes of places 

 somewhat greater or higher than my own reckonings and 

 estimates would make them. 



591. CiCHORiUM Intybus, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Aberdeen, Dumbarton. 



Estimate of provinces ] 6. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 58. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Viatical, Agrestal. This frequent English plant 

 becomes so infrequent in Scotland, that doubts have been 

 expressed whether it is really indigenous in any part of 



