44. COMPOSITE,. 79 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Vialical, Pascual. In most of the English 

 counties, on chalk or limestone, and near the coast. The 

 more northerly provinces are to be distrusted ; mostly rest- 

 ing on reports of single localities, not confirmed by any 

 second or sufficiently competent botanist. It is probably 

 not an unusual mistake, to apply the name of this species 

 to examples of C. lanceolatus. 



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^ ^'^^^^/. ^f^^-- 601. Carduus palustris, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Hebrides, Orkney'*^ 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 800 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 38, 



Native. Pratal, Inundatal, &c. Apparently omitted 

 P from Barry's History of Orkney (which I quote only second- 



hand), but is it riot more likely to be the " C. crispus " of 

 that work, than is the latter to be intended for C. acan- 

 thoides, to which Dr. Neill refers the species mentioned 

 by Barry or Lowe, under name of C. crispus ? Not infre- 

 quent in the inferarctic zone, but probably rare in the 

 midarctic. 



