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Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 38. 



Native. Pascual. A species so familiar and so conspi- 

 cuous as the Daisy will never be overlooked by botanists 

 who are endeavouring to make a full list of species for any 

 county or section. In order, therefore, to show the coun- 

 ties, concerning the botany of which we may be said to 

 possess the least full information, I will here enumerate 

 those in which I find the Daisy not recorded to grow, al- 

 though no doubt can be entertained as to its occurrence in 

 all of them. These are Berks, Bucks, Northampton, Bre- 

 con, Radnor, Montgomery, Merioneth, Flint, Lincoln, 

 Westmoreland, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton, Peebles, 

 Selkirk, Haddington, Linlithgow. In several of these 

 counties I must myself have seen Daisies innumerable, and 

 yet have not retained any distinct recollection of the fact. 

 The Bellis is not frequent above the agrarian region. 



^ fW. ^^/J..^/' 66L Chrysanthemum SEGETUM, Z2WW. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 250 or 300 yards, in E. Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 44. 



Colonist. Agrestal. It may appear to others an excess 

 of scepticism to substitute the term " Colonist" in place of 

 " Native," for expressing the civil claims of this very abun- 

 dant species ; and yet my inclination decidedly is towards 

 holding it an importation. Its aspect and affinities are 



