52. SOLANACEiE. — 53. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 187 



places, without being very persistent in any of them. It 

 seems to be natm'ally a plant of warmer climates than our 

 own. - Ay ^'^ *^J- t,*^^*^ lYc^ A^^-^!^<4. /-^^^-^ 



t Physalis Alkekengi, Willd. 



Area (5). 



Alien. " Naturalized on waste ground at Foleshill," 

 Warwickshire. (Thomas Kirk, in Phytol. ii., 971.) 



t Lycium barbarum, Linn. 



Area (2). 



Alien. " There is a hedge of Lycium barbarum on the 

 shore near Lymington, far from any house, and I know not 

 how the student would be able to pronounce that it was not 

 wild." (Mr. Joseph Woods, in Phytol. iii. 261.) Hedges 

 being artificial fonnations, it would seem to be a very easy 

 and direct inference, to pronounce the shi-ub which consti- 

 tutes the hedge, " not wild," unless found elsewhere also. 



740. Verbascum Thapsus, 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 Forfar, Argyle (Arran). 

 Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 60. 

 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 — 47. 



