280 56. boraginacejE. 



861. BORAGO OFFICINALIS, Limi. '^^^- ^^^//^iX 



Area (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 10 11 12 13 14 15). 



Alien. Occasionally found on waste ground, and in 

 places where rubbish heaps are formed ; having formerly 

 been much cultivated in gardens, and being still allowed 

 to sow itself in many of them, as a sort of permitted weed. 



862. Lycopsis arvensis, 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 450 yards, in East Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Agrestal. With the exception of Myosotis ar- 

 vensis, probably the commonest and most general weed of 

 its natural order in Britain. I observed it near Castletown, 

 in Aberdeenshire, at about 1000 or 1100 feet; and Dr. 

 Dickie reports it even up to 1386 feet in that county. 



863. Anchusa officinalis, Linn. 



Area [1***5**8]** (11) * [13 * 15]. 

 Alien. Has been many years established on the coast 

 of Northumberland, to which it is believed to have been 



