76 44, COMPOSITiE. 



North limit in Orkney ? Moray, Dumbarton. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — 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. Viatical. Not unlikely that the present species 

 may be found in all the provinces, though I have as yet no 

 locality for either of the two Northern provinces, excepting 

 one rather unsatisfactorily reported for Orkney. In his 

 Tour in Orkney, Dr. Neill observes that the Carduus 

 crispus of Barry's History is only another name for C. 

 acanthoides; but it does not clearly appear that Dr. Neill 

 saw any example of the species so designated, while in the 

 Orkney Isles. Proceeding southward, the next mention of 

 the plant occurs in the ' Collectanea for a Flora of Moray,' 

 where Gordon gives four localities, with some distrust of 

 its nativity in the county. It is stated to be "not common " 

 about Aberdeen, and " not uncommon " in Forfarshire. 

 Established or indigenous at Castletown, in Braemar, 

 where I observed it in 1832 and 1844. 



597. Carduus tenuiflorus, Curt. -^ /V- f^l U i^ti/ 



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



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Forfar, Fife, near Glasgow. 

 Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 60. 

 Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 

 Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



