262 55. LAMIACE^. 



varying much in regard to its situations of growth. Sta- 

 chys aiTibigua is recorded from every province ; but I must 

 refer all the specimens sent to me, labelled by that name, 

 to ordinary S. palustris, with the exception of one from the 

 Botanical Society of London, communicated by Dr. Dewar, 

 from the neighbourhood of Culross, in a part of Perthshire 

 which is physically a portion of Fifeshire, and so taken in 

 this work ; possibly also excepting two others, from Orkney"' 

 and Dumbarton. I have collected Smith's plant in Corn- 

 wall and Surrey ; and while confessing myself unprepared 

 to give any sufficient diagnosis in writing, I am still not 

 quite certain that the true S. ambigua is identical with S. 

 palustris, when taken apart from the slight varieties of the 

 latter species which are frequently labelled as S. ambigua. 



^ 838. Stachys sylvatica Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 400 yards, in East Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 



Native. Sylvestral, Paludal. I have seen this above 

 1000 feet in Perthshire, and Dr. Dickie says it grows at 

 1200 feet in Aberdeenshire. 



839. Stachys GERMANicA, Linn. '^ ^'^^/f ^ - {/4X 



Area^V/S 4 * * * 8 * 10. 



South limit in Kent ? Berks, Oxon, Bedford. 



