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76. LiLiACE^. 467 



ONVALLARIA MAJALIS, Linil. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 * 7 8 9 10 11 12 ^13^14) 15. 



South limit in Somerset, Wilts, Surrey, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Forfar, Perth, Lanark ? 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 58. Germanic (.'') type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian— Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Peninsula or Thames. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 46. 



Native. Sylvestral. Localities have been recorded for 

 this species in forty counties ; but in several of these coun- 

 ties it is either expressly stated, or impliedly admitted, to 

 be of suspected origin; while the presumption seems deci- 

 dedly in favour of its aboriginal nativity in about thirty of 

 them. The Rev. G. Gordon and Mr. W. A. Stables deem 

 it clearly indigenous in Moray ; and the woods of Kent 

 appear quite admissable as native localities. In various 

 other countries, between these extremities of its area, it is 

 evidently wild and plentiful. In the Peninsula and Chan- 

 nel provinces it would seem to be quite local, and indige- 

 nous only in the counties of Somerset and Wilts. Mr. 

 Bowman reported it in Denbighshire, which is the only 

 county of Wales hitherto placed on record for this species. 

 It occurs sparingly, but apparently indigenous, in one lo- 

 cality in the West of Cheshire ; and is reported from seve- 

 ral spots within the Lake province. The localities in 

 Renfrew and Lanark are to be cautiously received as 

 indigenous habitats, being places " where many a garden 

 flower grows wild" by the original aid of human beautificrs. 

 The distribution does not accord very precisely with any 



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