378 71. AMENTIFER.«. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral. Though quite believing this tree to 

 be truly native in the south of England, as in the counties 

 of Hants and Sussex ; and not improbably indigenous also 

 also in counties much more northerly, as in those of Staf- 

 ford and Chester, 1 find it quite impossible to disting-uish 

 the counties in which the beech does occur as a native, 

 from those in which it now appears only as a planted tree. 

 Its nativity in Scotland, where it grows well, is generally 

 denied or distrusted. Winch treats it as native of the 

 Tyne province. In the Floras of Yorkshire and Notting- 

 hamshire, and in Howitt's list of Derbyshire plants, it is 

 given without the expression of doubt on the point; as also 

 in several of the local lists and floras for more southern 

 counties or tracts, particularly those including portions of 

 the chalk basins of England. It may be said that the 

 beech is certainly native in the provinces of the Channel 

 and Thames ; probably so, in those of the Ouse, Trent, 

 Mersey, and Severn ; also in the Peninsula, at least in its 

 most easterly county of Somerset ; more dubiously, in 

 Wales, Humber, and Tyne ; introduced only, in Scotland 

 and the Lake province. 



990. Carpinus Betulus, Linn. A/^-A/^./W 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 * (7 8 * 10 11 * 13 14 15). 



South limit in Devon, Kent, } 



North limit in Norfolk, Cambridge, ? 



Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of counties 20. 

 Latitude 50 — 53 (55). English type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 

 Descends to the coast level, or nearlv so. 



