118 44. COMPOSURE. 



numerous foreign specimens of it, and having kept it in 

 my garden a year or two ; but I have never seen a British 

 plant to which I should apply that name, and therefore 

 suppose that Mr. Babington mistook for it some form of 

 S. aquaticus ; Mr. Leighton, perhaps, following Mr. Ba- 

 bington, without having had the chance of correcting the 

 error, by an examination of foreign examples of S. errati- 

 cus; which latter species, however easily recognized when 

 once known, is not easily characterized in print, so as to 

 distinguish it clearly from S. aquaticus. 



649. Senecio paludosus, Linn. -4 /^- '^^^ / . ^^z 



Area ***4^i(6*8 [9 ******-:). 17]. 



South limit in Suffolk, Cambridge. 



North limit in Lincoln. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 52 — 54. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Ouse province. 



Ascends to 50 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 48. 



Native. Paludal. Apparently a very local species, 

 restricted to some of the fenland tracts in the Eastern pro- 

 vinces of England. The counties of Chester (Waring, 

 quoted in B. G.) and Ross (Gordon cat., quoted in N. B. G.) 

 have likely been indicated by mistake or inadvertence. 



650. Senecio saracenicus, Linn. 



Area 12**5*789 10 (II) 12 13 14 (15 16). 

 South limit in Somerset, Wilts. 



