55. LAMIACE^. 249 



17, 1844. Mr. G. S. Gibson sought the plant unsuccess- 

 fully in 1848, and describes the locality as being in " a 

 very stony and steep valley, facing the south, near the far- 

 ther end of Box Hill, from Burford Bridge." ... "It grew, 

 I am infoimed, in tolerable plenty, over a limited space of 

 ground, but unfortunately it is now (at least temporarily) 

 destroyed by the land being ploughed up." (Phytologist, 

 iii. 308.) 



Teucrium kegium, Schreb. 



Area [5]. 



Incognit, " Said to have been found in the slope of the 

 Blorenge, near Abergavenny, by Mr. E. Y. Steele, but I 

 fear that some mistake has occun-ed. See Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 377." (Bab. Man. Brit. Bot.) 



822. Ajuga reptans, Lrmi. 

 822, b. Ajuga alpina, Aut. Any. 



Ai*ea general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 750 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 39. 



Native. Pratal, Sylvestral, &c. Not observed in the 

 Outer Hebrides by Balfour and Babington ; nor have I 

 noted it in my lists of plants seen in Sutherland, Caithness, 



