190 53. SCROPHULARIACE^. 



743, Verbascum nigrum, Linn. 



Area 123456*8** (11** 14). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Norfolk, Notts, Derby, Salop. 



Estimate of provinces 7. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 54 (56). English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatm-e 52 — 48. 



Native. Viatical. Possibly indigenous in the East-Low- 

 land province, in the counties of Haddington and Edin- 

 burgh, one or both. In the Flora of Berwick, it is said to 

 have been observed on waste ground at Ord, for many 

 years, though probably an outcast of the garden. Winch 

 mentions the ballast-hills of Tyne and Wear, in the pro- 

 vince of Tyne. The wide space inten^ening between Had- 

 dington and Notts, with only the above mentioned very 

 suspicious localities between those two counties, must 

 weigh a good deal against regarding those of Haddington 

 and Edinburgh as really natural habitats. The species is, 

 however, entered as a native of their district in the Cata- 

 logue published by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



744. Verbascum Blattaria, Linn. 



Area 123456**9 10* 12. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Cumberland, North Lancashire, York. 



Estimate of provinces 9. Estimate of counties 20. 



