76. LILIACE,E. 465 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Ericetal, Sylvestral. Indigenous in most of 

 the counties of the four first provinces of England, Penin- 

 sula to Ouse. Unknown in that of the Severn. Ascer- 

 tained in the single county of Glamorgan only in the 

 Welch provinces. More northward, it has been reported 

 to grow in Leicester (Bot. Charn.), Nottingham (Deering), 

 York (Winch, in N. B. G.), Durham (Flo. N. D.), Ayr 

 (Hook. Brit. Flo.), Lanark (Flo. Glott.), Fife (Mr. G. Law- 

 son), Moray (Coll. Mor.), Islay (Professor Balfour). Diffi- 

 cult to decide where it is native, and where it has been 

 introduced. Doubtful as a native of Scotland. The authors 

 of the Floras of York and Nottingham appear not to have 

 verified its existence in their counties. Winch gives it as 

 an indigenous plant of Durham ; indicating two localities 

 on borrowed authority, not of high value in a question of 

 botanical nativity. Perhaps the comital census may eventu- 

 ally reach to 25, though I do not venture to carry the esti- 

 mate above 20 on existing records and knowledge. 



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Area [3 4****9^1 1]. 



Incognit or Alien. This was lately announced to British 

 botanists as having been discovered wild or naturalized in 

 the woods at Howick, Northumberland. Subsequently, 

 the alleged habitat was visited by Mr. Borrer, who reported 

 in the Phytologist, ii. 432, that " the plant has been com- 

 pletely extirpated at Howick. The spot was close by 

 Earl Grey's garden." It is very much to be wished that 

 real botanists would not only discountenance, but also 

 treat with public reprobation, every attempt to pass off the 



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