310 60. PLANTAGINACE^. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel province. 



Ascends to 150 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Pascual, &c. Abundant in many parts of 

 England, where the soil is calcareous, as in the chalk 

 tracts. Edmondston gives one habitat, " near Scalloway," 

 in Shetland ; and the name occurs in Lowe's list of Orkney 

 plants. But when we find no mention of the species in 

 the list of plants observed in the outer Hebrides, Suther- 

 land, Caithness, Ross, Moray, Banff, West Inverness, Ar- 

 gyle, Perth, &c., some distrust of the alleged habitats in 

 the more northerly groups of isles may reasonably be en- 

 tertained. The author of the Flora Abredonensis does 

 not appear to have met with the species in the neighbour- 

 hood of Aberdeen, and refers to the Northern Flora for an 

 authority in evidence of its occurrence in his district. Two 

 localities are mentioned in the Flora of Forfarshire. 



903. Plantago lanceolata, Linn. '^ ^'^'^^'^ X '^9^-^ 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Hebrides, ^^"^"^ *^ 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 700 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 39. 



Native. Pascual, &c. Equally abundant with P. ma- 

 jor, or even more so. Perhaps this may be the species 

 intended under name of P. media in the Orkney list. 



