108 44. COMPOSITE. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 46 (42). 



Native. Pratal, Paludal. It is remarkable that the pre- 

 sent species should be enumerated in Balfour and Babing- 

 ton's list of Hebrideau plants, as observed by them in 

 various parts of North Uist, Hams and Lewis, while the 

 Tussilago Farfara was nowhere noticed in those Isles. On 

 the contrary, in my own lists of species seen in the High- 

 land counties, and especially in their mountain glens, the 

 Tussilago Farfara is almost invariably included, while the 

 name of the Petasites does not occui- in auy of those lists. 

 I am tempted to think that the one name has been inad- 

 vertently substituted for the other, in the Hebridean Cata- 

 logue ; and not unlikely the same mistake was made in 

 Barry's Orkney. Both species are enumerated in the Flora 

 of Shetland. Was it this species or Tussilago Farfai'a 

 which was seen by Dr. Dickie, at 1500 feet of elevation, in 

 Aberdeenshire ? 



t Petasites albus, Gaert. -^ ^^ ^^^ J. 4fh 



Area (10). • 



AUen. " A large patch of this early -flowering plant oc- 

 cm's in an oak wood north of the hall [Storthes Hall .'']. It 

 is growing in a damp stony hollow, and covers many yards 

 with its strong penetrating roots, which creep above gi-ound 

 among the stones in every direction." — " Peter Inchbald " 

 (Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield), in Phytol. iii. 445. 



Nardosmia fragrans, Rchbh. 



Area (12***67). 



Alien. Frequently cultivated in shmbberies, and not 



