452 76. LILIACE^. 



1081. Allium arenarium, Linn. — ^^ 

 Allium Scorodoprasum, Linn. 



Area [* 2 * * 5] * * * 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. 



South limit in York, Lancaster. [Worcester ?] 



North limit in Forfar ? Perth, Fife, Kirkcudbright. 



Estimate of provinces 7. Estimate of counties 12. 



Latitude 53 — 57. Scottish type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Midagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Tyne province. 



Ascends to 150 or 200 yards, in Humber. 



Range of mean annual temperature 48 — 46, 



Native. Pratal, Sjlvestral. Besides the counties above 

 mentioned, this species is recorded for those of Berwick, 

 Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumber- 

 land. Introduced to Moray, according to Gordon. Mr. 

 Lees reported it in Worcestershire (N. B. G.) ; and Dr. 

 Salter enumerates it as growing within 30, though not 

 within 16, miles from Poole, in Dorset. These two habi- 

 tats will require verification, before they can be taken into 

 account for the area, &c. Mr. Babington has adopted the 

 name of A. Scorodoprasum ; but the species is more fami- 

 liar to British botanists under that of A. arenarium, which 

 seems equally correct, if the Linnean specimens can be 

 relied upon. Fries, however, in the Summa Vegetabilium, 

 keeps the two distinct, and gives exactly the same distri- 

 bution for each of them in Scandinavia. Hartman also 

 describes them as two species ; so that there would seem 

 to be still some ambiguity between the British and Swedish 

 plants. 



