5. RESEDACE.E. 169 



• ^ /j^///' / J^> 126. Reseda lutea, Linn. 



Area 12 3 4 5 6^7^ 8 * 10 11 * * 14 15. 



South limit in/(ComwallJ5rIsle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Aberdeenshire and Forfarshire. 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 58. Gennanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Channel. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Viatical, &c. Prevalent in the chalk tracts of 

 the south-east of England ; but extending also to the 

 limestones of the more western and northern counties ; and 

 I'unning so far up the east coast of Scotland, as to give 

 somewhat of the English and British character to its geo- 

 graphic type. Two Cornish localities are mentioned in 

 Jones's Tom-. The species is omitted from the Flora 

 Devoniensis ; but Dr. Southby marks it in his checked list 

 of Somerset plants, and it is reported from the vicinities of 

 Bristol and Bath, on sufficient authority also. Mr. J. E. 

 Bowman marked the name in a list of British plants, checked 

 for Denbighshu-e ; but as the name of R. Luteola was not 

 marked, it seems likely that some inadvertence occurred : 

 the latter species is the one included in Mr. Rowland's list 

 of plants near Wrexham. If native " on the Inch," at 

 Aberdeen, that would seem to be its extreme north limit, 

 which is but slightly above the line of 57°. The Rev. G. 

 Gordon deems the species certainly introduced into Moray. 



