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609. Carlina vulgaris, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Kincardine, Isle of Arran. 



Estimate of provinces 16, Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level (?), in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 250 yards, in Lake province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 46. 



Native. Glareal, Pascual. Infrequent, but not scarce 

 in England, and found in some few of the Scottish counties, 

 chiefly along their coast line. The Rev. G. Gordon inti- 

 mates that it has been discovered in Moray, by Dr. Innes, 

 since the ' Collectanea ' was printed, though rather ques- 

 tioning its real nativity there. Along the coast of Kincar- 

 dine and Forfar there are scattered localities, from which 

 the step to Moray is not very wide. 



Carlina racemosa, Linn. 



Hibernian. Mr. Andrews found a (single }) specimen of 

 this plant, growing with C. vulgaris, in the Isle of Arran, 

 Ireland. (See London Journal of Botany, iv. 570.) 



t Centaurea MONTANA, Linn. 



Area (5 * # * * 10). 



Alien. In the Natural History of the county of Stafford, 



