80. ALISMACE.E. 475 



plentifully by the Rev. A. Bloxam, Dr. James Mitchell 

 has found it in the river Leen, and in the ditches of adja- 

 cent meadows, near Nottingham, " certainly not intro- 

 duced." (Bot. Gaz. i. 27). Dr. G. Johnston appears to 

 have been the first botanist who gathered the plant in this 

 country, in the neighbourhood of Berwick- on-Tweed. 

 (Proceedings Berw. Nat. Club ; and Phytol. iii. 540). Mr. 

 C. C. Babington informs me that it has been also found in 

 Duddingston Lock, near Edinburgh, by Professor Balfour. 

 In Staffordshire, according to Mr. Edwin Brown, in Phyto- 

 logist, iii. 647. 



^ /^ ^ /C ^ 1109. AusMA Plantago, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Ross, Aberdeen, Argyle. <^c/^^*^ 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Channel. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Paludal. Abundant in England ; and marked 

 with the highest sign of frequency even so far north as the 

 Moray Flora. Beyond the Caledonian Canal I have only 

 one authority for its occurrence, that of the Rev. G. Gor- 

 don's checked list of Ross plants. 



1110. Alisma banunculoides, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 

 South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



