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introduced. Other habitats have also been reported, but 

 all of them may be said to require verification. These 

 dubious localities are mentioned in the New Botanist's 

 Guide and Flora of Shropshire. That of Northumberland 

 is thus described by my esteemed correspondent Mr. 

 Storey. " Sand banks near Seaton Sluice, no doubt intro- 

 duced. The patch of ground occupied by the plant, is 

 about twenty-five paces in length, by fifteen in breadth." 

 Mr. Winch says, " on the old ballast-hills. Hartley." 



864. Anchdsa sempervirens, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Ross, Aberdeen, Argyle. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 250 or 300 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 45. 



Denizen or Alien. Viatical, Septal. Opinions are in 

 conflict respecting the nativity of this species in Britain ; 

 and the weight of authority or of probability is in the ad- 

 verse scale. Hooker marks it an alien. Henslow and 

 Babington place it in their intermediate category of sus- 

 pected, not certainly introduced, species. Among the 

 several places in which it has been seen by myself, only 

 one had the appearance of being a natural habitat ; and 

 the limited extent of space occupied by the plants in the 

 place in question (that is, in hedges by the road from 

 Barnstaple to Bishop Tawton, Devon) gave rise to a doubt 

 even there. Dr. Bromfield says, " truly wild in a retired 



