168 ■ 5. RESEDACEiE. 



125. Reseda Luteola, Linn. 



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



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North Umit in Ross-shire and about Glasgow. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagi'arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 j^ards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatm'e 52 — 47. 



Native. Viatical. Though nearly general in its distri- 

 bution, if estimated by lai'ge spaces, as provinces or coun- 

 ties, this is still not so frequent a plant, that its absence 

 from any parish or similar extent of country, would seem 

 remarkable. It decreases northward; but is said to be 

 frequent about Glasgow; and in the Edinburgh Catalogue it 

 is even marked with the highest degi-ee of frequency, which 

 is sm'ely wrong. In the neighbourhood of Aberdeen it 

 must be very rare, as it was unknown there so late as 1838, 

 the date of the Flora Abredonensis, though discovered af- 

 tei-wards. In Moray it is considered as a species perhaps 

 introduced, by the Rev. G. Gordon ; who, however, marks 

 it in his checked list of Ross-shire plants. In my own 

 manuscript notes I find it entered as seen both in Moray 

 and Ross, without any memorandum of doubt as to its na- 

 tivity there; but I was only a passing tourist in that 

 quarter. 



