54. OROBANCHACEiE. ^fi? 



Native. Agrestal ? Parasitical on Picris hieracioides. 

 Discovered at Comberton, near Cambridge, by the Rev. 

 W. W. Newbould (Annals, August, 1848), whence I have 

 a specimen from Mr. G. S. Gibson, through the Botanical 

 Society of London. Mr. C. C. Babington informs me that 

 it has been also found (by himself.'' — 'Or by Mr. New- 

 bould ?) in an old and long-deserted quarry, near Giltar 

 Head, Pembrokeshire. Having thus been discovered al- 

 most simultaneously in two counties so far apart, it may be 

 expected elsewhere. The question will also arise, whether 

 it had not been previously collected, but misnamed ? If 

 so, under what name was it recorded } 



792. Orobanche elatior, Suit. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * 10 11. 



South limit in Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Sussex. 



North limit in Durham, York, Lincoln. 



Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 25. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Peninsula or Thames. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 47. 



Native. Agrestal ? Parasitical upon Centaurea Sca- 

 biosa, Knautia arvensis, and Carduus lanceolatus .? O. 

 major, of Linnaeus, according to Fries, in Summa Vegeta- 

 bilium, &c. I am quite unable to say how much of truth, 

 or how much of error, there may be in the sketch of distri- 

 bution given above ; being compelled to receive most of 

 the localities as I find them recorded in books, without 

 the means of detecting those errors of nomenclature which 



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