82 44. COMPOSITE. 



of Mays, three miles south of East Grinstead, in Sussex;" 

 a locality not very distant from the original one, " Frant, 

 near Tunbridge Wells." Mr. Borrer has reported C. Fors- 

 teri (Hook. Brit. Flo. 5) from Ditchling Common, in the 

 same county of Sussex. Last year (1848) Mr. Borrer 

 kindly sent me a living plant from his garden, as C. Fors- 

 teri, which differs considerably in its leaves from the plants 

 so named by Mr. Coleman and myself; but they are de- 

 current a short way below their insertion on the stem, and 

 thus present one of the two chief characters which distin- 

 guish C. Forsteri from C. pratensis; the stoloniferous root 

 giving the other character to the latter. 



604. Carduus pratensis, Huds. '^^ ^^'^^ / 



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Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 * 8 * 10 [11 * * * * 16]. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in York, Stafford, Salop. 



Estimate of provinces 8. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 54 or 55. 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 51 — 48. 



Native. Uliginal, Paludal. Said to have been found in 

 Islay and An-an, Scotland, and in Durham and Northum- 

 berland ; but the alleged localities remain apparently un- 

 confirmed by trustworthy observers of the present time, 

 and were originally uncertain, or reported on unsafe autho- 

 rity. Probably the southern limit is in Cornwall, though I 

 have no note of any locality in that county ; and, indeed, 

 as the species appears to be more eastern than western 



