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introduction, that I can cite none worth recording. Most 

 of those pubUshed in books, are obviously suspicious, as in 

 orchards and plantations, about walls and old houses, &c. 

 If really native in England, this may most Hkely be the case 

 in the limestone or chalk tracts of the southern and eastern 

 provinces. Great confusion exists between the localities 

 recorded for this species and H. foetidus. 



30. Helleborus fcetidus, Linn. 



Aiea 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 8 9) 10 11 (* 13 14 15). 



South limit in Somerset, Isle of Wight, Sussex. 



North limit in Dmham and Yorkshire. 



Estimate of provinces 8. Estimate of counties 20. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones, 

 t^ '^ Descends to the coast level, or nearly so, in England. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Denizen. Sylvestral. Though great doubt attaches to 

 the tiiie nativity of this species also, within Britain, it may 

 be held more likely a native than H. ^aridis. Hooker 

 equally marks it (*) an introduced species. Babington at- 

 taches the mark (f) of suspicion. But Dr. Bromfield, pro- 

 bably the best authority in the question, holds the present a 

 time native ; while he allows the H. viridis to be more dis- 

 putable. In the London Catalogue, the name of the pre- 

 sent species was. inadvertently printed in italics, instead of 

 W.///. that of H.^setifte^, though the intention was to follow the 

 ^ " views of Dr. Bromfield, in admitting the latter to be the 

 native species. I have seen localities in Derbyshu-e, Che- 

 shu-e, SuiTey, &c. ; but all veiy susjiicious ; as, for instance, 

 that of tlie rocks at Matlock Bath, on which several other 



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