98 44. COMPOSITE. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 30. 

 Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagi-arian zones. 

 Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 Ascends, at the coast level, to East Highlands. 

 Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 

 Native. Littoral. Apparently rare on the coast of Scot- 

 land, and not very frequent on that of England. 



625. Artemisia Absinthium, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 * 14 15 * * [18]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Forfar ? Fife, Isle of Man. 



Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 50. 



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 52 — 48. 



Native. Viatical. Chiefly near the coast, and probably 

 introduced to some of its inland habitats. Edmondston 

 includes it in his Shetland Flora, with a single locality; and 

 one only is mentioned in the Flora of Forfarshire. It ap- 

 pears to be indigenous on the coasts of the Firth of Forth. 



626. Artemisia vulgaris, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 

 Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of coimties 82. 



