96 1 RANUNCULACE.E. 



garden plants have been introduced for ornament. For the 

 Lake province we have no better authority than the utterly 

 un-trustworthy assertion of a Keswick guide. It is anfortu- 

 nate that botanical tourists shoidd make the frauds and 

 falsehoods of the Lake guides profitable to them. 



31. Aquilegia Vulgaris, Linn. 



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



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Durham and Dumfiies-shire. '^ /^'^- //A JL T/'^* 



Estimate of provinces 13. Estimate of counties 35. 



Latitude 50 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Infei'agrarian — Midagraiian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends probably to 200 yards, in Hiunber. 



Range of mean aimual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral and Rupestral. Inhabits woods and 

 banks, chiefly on calcareous ground, by lakes and streams, 

 on rocks, &c.; so that it might be designated either ' syl- 

 vestral' or 'rupestral,' almost equally coiTectly. Though 

 introduced to many of its recorded localities, it is no doubt 

 a real native of this countiy. I should say, certainly native 

 in Kent and Cumberland. Dr. Bromfield deems it to be 

 "tmly wild" in the Isle of Wight; and Mr. Gutch pro- 

 nounces it equally so " on the ragged banks of the Gai-ple, 

 a small mountain stream, a tributaiy of the Evan Water, 

 in Annandale, Dumfries-shire." The more northerly loca- 

 lities in Scotland, probably, originate from gardens. 



