76. LILIACE^. 453 



1082. Allium oleraceum, Linn. 

 1082, b. Allium carinatum, Sin. 



Area 12345**8* 10 11 12* [14] 15. 



South limit in Somerset, Hants, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Forfar, Fife, Cumberland. 



Estimate of provinces 9. Estimate of counties 20. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel. 



Ascends to 200 yards, in Humber. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 46. 



Native. Rupestral, Pratal, &c. Considerable uncer- 

 tainty is felt respecting the distribution of this plant. It 

 is doubtful whether one or two species are comprehended 

 under the above two names ; and it is doubtful, also, 

 whether some of the recorded localities do not really belong 

 to A. vineale or other species; while to other places this 

 may have been introduced. Though enumerated in the 

 Flora of Berwick, the localities are strictly within the pro- 

 vince of Tyne, not in that of the East Lowlands ; and 

 though a specimen is said to have been found in the 

 county of Edinburgh, it is not recognized as a plant of 

 their circle by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Hence 

 that province [14] is cut off from the area indicated. Too 

 local to bo referred to the British type ; and yet neither so 

 boreal nor so austral as to well justify its reference to the 

 Scottish or English type. The true A. carinatum, of Lin- 

 nseus, is said to be different from the A. carinatum of 

 Smith and English botanists. Possibly attains the super- 



