292 58. PRIMULACE^. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagi-arian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 500 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Sylvestral, Septal, &c. The generality and 

 abundance of this favorite and familiar flower of spring, 

 through the British Islands, is rather a characteristic fea- 

 ture in our native vegetation ; for it seems to be by no 

 means so general through the con-esponding latitudes of 

 the Continent. Probably ascends into the arctic region, 

 but on this point I can speak only from a recollection 

 which is not sufliciently exact to warrant the indication of 

 a higher altitude than is given above. 



879. Primula elatior, Jacq. ^ h^ ^U'A ^^g, 



Area * j). 3 4. 



South limit in Essex. 



North limit in Suffolk. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 51 — 53. Local type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to a trifling elevation above the coast level. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 48. 



Native. Pratal. The varieties of P. vulgaris, or the 

 hybrids between that species and P. veris, have been so 

 very frequently mistaken for this apparently distinct spe- 

 cies, that it becomes necessary to reject every locality 

 reported for " Primula elatior," unless in those instances 

 where specimens have been laid before some botanist fully 

 prepared to discriminate between the true and the false P. 



