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Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47, 

 Native. Viatical. The Flora Glottiana includes in its 

 area some small portions of both West and East High- 

 lands, in the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling, along 

 with the West Lowland counties of Renfrew and Lanark ; 

 and I am uncertain whether to consider this species as oc- 

 curring on the Highland side of the Clyde, or as restricted 

 to the Lowland province. 



jUm. ^S^/^/V ^rC-Y/- ^^^* Carduus Marianus, Linn. 



Area 12345678* 10 11 12* 14 15'''/u7). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Aberdeen, ? 



Estimate of provinces 13. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50—58. 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. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Denizen. Viatical. If I had followed here the in- 

 ferences suggested by the habitats in which I have myself 

 enjoyed the opportunity of seeing this species, it would 

 have been ranked in the category of ' Aliens.' But when 

 I find it treated as an unquestioned native in the works of 

 Hooker, Henslow, Babington, and also by many Authors 

 of local Floras, I feel compelled to place it in the distrusted 

 instead of the rejected rank. The name is marked by the 

 Rev. G. Gordon, in a list of British plants, checked off for 

 the counties of Ross and Cromarty ; but in the * Collecta- 

 nea,' by the same botanist, the species is enumerated as 

 one " certainly introduced " into Moray. It is unchal- 

 lenged in the Floras of Aberdeen and Forfarshire, and in 



