306 59. PLUMBAGINACE.E. 



' The Vegetable KingdonvH and ' A Synopsis of the British 

 Flora^ from the pen of the same author ! Both are com- 

 pilations in some sense, and jet how dissimilar ! The for- 

 mer is the digest of a master thoroughly conversant with 

 his subject: the latter might have been the faulty compi- 

 lation of a pupil, who had his subject yet to learn. This 

 low estimate of the Synopsis is mentioned here, where the 

 opportunity is given, in order to account for the small re- 

 spect towards Dr. Lindley's authority in connexion with 

 British botany, which is exhibited in the pages of the 

 present work, and in other publications by the same writer. 

 The disregard of Dr. Lindley as a British botanist, or sim- 

 ply as a botanist of species, will not be misconstrued into 

 a non-appreciation of his high merits on other grounds, 

 where he may be more at home. 



897. Statice Limonium, Linn. 



■ Area 123456789 10 11 12 13**** [18]. 



South limit in Cornwall ? Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Dumfries, Berwick or North Durham. 



Estimate of provinces 13. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 56. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends, at the coast level, to the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to the W. Lowlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. Frequent on the coasts of England ; 

 very local on those of Scotland, and not yet recorded from 

 the East Lowlands, unless that province be considered to 

 extend rather beyond the strict political limits of its coun- 

 ties. Between Northumberland and Berwickshire is a 

 small tract of country which belongs to Durham politically, 



