59. PLUMBAGINACE^E. 307 



although divided from this latter county bj^ the whole 

 length of Northumberland, and usually distinguished as 

 North Durham or Islandshire. By geographical proximity 

 this tract belongs to Berwickshire, rather than to Durham; 

 and being so associated in the ' Flora of Berwick-on- 

 Tweed,' the range of which is extended southwards to 

 Holy Island, it may be more natural and more convenient 

 to regard ' Islandshire ' as a portion of the East Lowland 

 province. Statice Limonium is recorded to grow in Holy 

 Island ; and thus may be received as a plant of the East 

 Lowlands. Jones (Tour) records the present species as a 

 plant observed in Cornwall ; but Mr. Pascoe finds only S. 

 spathulata in the locality given. 



^^'^■^'^ /' £rC/^ 898. Statice (^RARiFLORA, Dre^y 



Area 1234****^***13. 



South limit in Devon, Hants, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Wigton, Suffolk, ? 



Estimate of provinces 6. Estimate of counties 10. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends, at the coast level, to the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to West Lowlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. This was long regarded as a variety 

 of S. Limonium, and occasionally confused with S. spathu- 

 lata. The localities are consequently still very little known. 

 The plants of the southern coast of England, and those of 

 the West Lowland province, differ somewhat from each 

 other ; but if identical species we may expect the disco- 

 very of other intermediate localities. The counties above 



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