55. LAMIACEiE. 263 



North limit in York, Lincoln, Derby ? 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 5. 



Latitude 54 — 55. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends nearly to the coast level, in Thames. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 48. 



Native .? Sylvestral, Pascual ? Usually allowed to pass 

 muster among our really native plants. Not having seen 

 it in any of its reported habitats, I am unable to say aught 

 in the matter from my own experience or observation. 

 Mr. Spruce says (Flora of Yorkshire) that it is plentiful in 

 all the woods about Castle Howard, in the province of 

 Humber. In that of Trent, the Rev. J. Davies stated (B. 

 G.) that it was a common weed in the fields and hedges 

 a little wide of Coltersworth, about eight miles from Gran- 

 tham, in great profusion in the years 1794 and 1796, on 

 the left hand side of the road to .... ? And it w^as said 

 to have been found by Dr. Richardson four miles south of 

 Grantham, near the London road opposite Easton. Ano- 

 ther locality in the same province, thatof Pinxton, Derby- 

 shire, is quoted from Mr. Coke, in the Botanist's Guide. 

 Truly wild at Luton Park, in Bedfordshire, according to 

 the Rev. Dr. Abbott (Mr. Dawson Turner, mss.), but in- 

 troduced thence to the " hill, two miles from Bedford," by 

 Dr. Abbott himself, in order to have it nearer his own re- 

 sidence. I have one specimen from Oxfordshire, commu- 

 nicated to the Botanical Society of London, by Dr. Lloyd, 

 who collected this species by the road-side between Hop- 

 croft's Holt and Sturge's Castle, on the road from Oxford 

 to Banbury. Other localities in the same county may be 

 seen in the Botanist's Guides. Duckhngton, Berkshire, is 

 mentioned for this plant in the British Flora, &c. And it 

 was once found at Eavthiot, near Lymiuge, in Kent, by 



