352 65. THYMEL^ACEiE. 



infrequent shrub with reference to England in general ; 

 and quite local in Scotland ; where, however, authors seem 

 to regard it as a true native, although most of its stations 

 are suspicious by their proximity to the ornamental 

 grounds about country residences. Mr. George Lawson 

 has recorded it (Phytol. iii. 134) growing in Earl's Hill 

 Wood abundantly ; otherwise I had no authority to cite 

 for its existence northward of the Firth of Forth, and still 

 hesitate to consider it indigenous there. The authors of 

 the Edinburgh Society's Catalogue mark it as only a 

 doubtful native of their circle. In the Flora of Berwick it 

 is stated to be quite wild on the banks of the Eye, above 

 Netherbyres, on authority of the Rev. A. Baird. 



956. Daphne Mezereum, Linn. 



Area (1) 2 3 (4) 5 * * 8 * 10 (11) 12. 



South limit in Dorset, Hants, Sussex. 



North limit in York, Westmoreland, North Lancashire. 



Estimate of provinces 6. Estimate of counties 9. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to 100 yards, less or more, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 48. 



Denizen. Sylvestral. My own inclination would be to 

 treat this shrub as an alien, without attempting to fill in 

 the formula in the customary way for native plants. By 

 Hooker it is classed with the introduced species; by Hens- 

 low and Babington with the undisputed natives. Mr. 

 Borrer deems it " truly wild " in Sussex ; Mr. Pamplin 

 apparently takes the same view of it in Hants ; the au- 

 thors of the Flora Hertfordiensis enter it as an unchallenged 



