55. LAMIACE.E. 265 



North limit in Orkney, Ross, ? 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrariau zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 46. 



Native. Sylvestral, Septal. Abundant in England ; but 

 apparently far from common in tlie Highland provinces. 

 Absent from the lists for Shetland and the Outer Hebrides; 

 nor did I happen to see it in Sutherland or Caithness. 

 Observed in Orkney by Dr. Patrick Neill. 



i^ h^./rf Jc.^^l^, 842. Nepeta Cataria, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * 10 11 .;^ 13 14 15 ^ (17 18). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Fife, Lanark, Berwick. 



Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian 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. Septal, Viatical. Li most counties of the first 

 six provinces ; much less general in the rest of England ; 

 very local in Scotland. One locality is mentioned in the 

 Shetland Flora, which may be distrusted, because so far 

 northward of any alleged native one. At Skelbo Castle, 

 Sutherland, where it used formerly to be cultivated, accord- 

 ing to the Rev. G. Gordon. Road-side between Culross 

 and Kincardine, Fife, according to Mr. Maughan, quoted 

 in Hooker's Flora Scotica. The author of the Flora of 



