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86 44. COMPOSITE. 



side of the road between Market Deeping and Croyland." 

 (Edward Edwards, in Phytologist, ii. 115.) By no means 

 an unlikely species to occur in Lincolnshire ; but unless 

 re-discovered in England, it can scarcely be admitted as a 

 known native. The above notice was elicited from Mr. 

 Edwards by a previous one from Dr. Bromfield, to nearly 

 the same effect, though with rather less direct or satisfactory 

 evidence. (See Phytologist, ii. 53.) 



608. Onopordum Acanthium, Linn. -^ ^^ /'//y y 



Area 123456789 10 11 12 (13) 14 15 * * (18). 



South limit in Somerset, Dorset, Hants, Kent. <^^^*>»-4r 1 



North limit in Fife, Haddington, (Lanark). 



Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 30 or 40. 



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. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native ? Viatical. Perhaps indigenous in the South of 

 England, and gradually extended northward by the agency 

 of mankind. Several authors on local botany treat this as 

 a dubious native ; but it is admitted without challenge into 

 the Catalogue of Forth plants, by the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh. By admitting all the counties in which the 

 Onopordum is found, however distrusted as a native, we 

 may raise the coraital census up to 40, but 30 would likely 

 be the full number which ought to be reckoned for it. 

 Formerly, possibly still, found in the Isle of Wight. 



