254 55. LAMIACE^E. 



North limit in Aberdeen, Stirling, about Glasgow. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British (.'') type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Viatical. A very frequent plant in England ; 

 but becoming so infrequent in the Highland provinces as 

 almost to require its position under the English type. It 

 is enumerated in Lowe's list of Orkney plants. The Rev. 

 G. Gordon deems it certainly introduced into Moray, and 

 indicates only the single locality of " Dunfermline's gar- 

 den, 1831" (Coll. Mor, 1839). In the Alvah Catalogue 

 also marked as a doubtfully indigenous species, by Mr. W. 

 A. Stables, Not common about Aberdeen. Southwards 

 it becomes more plentiful, and is marked with the highest 

 sign of fi-equency for the Edinburgh circuit. As it is stated 

 in Flora Glottiaiia to be fi-equeut about Glasgow, I take the 

 West Highland province into the estimate, although I have 

 no positive authority for its occun-ence in that or the Lake 

 province. 



829. Lamium maculatum, Linn. '^ l^'^Uf ^. 4-^^ 

 829, b. Lamium L^viGATUM, '■'■Linn.'" 



Area (* * 3 * 5 * -* 8 9 * * * 13 14 15 * 17). 



Alien. Formerly much cultivated in gardens, while Eu- 

 ropean species constituted the staple stock of hardy orna- 

 mental plants ; and as it readily diffuses itself by seeds in 

 a weed-like manner, it has become more or less fully esta- 

 blished in many localities. In Babington's Manual, the 

 habitats of " Fifeshire and Clova" are indicated for the L. 



