186 9. PoLYGALACEiE. 



141. POLYGALA VULGARIS, Linil./et. ^*^-^//.3^D . 



141,b. PoLYGALA OXYPTERA, Rchll. 



141,C. PoLYGALA AMARA, Bon. ^ ^-^-//Z ^^. 3Z^ 



Area, general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 S ^^-u^. North limit in Orkney, Hebrides, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagi'arian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 900 yai-ds, in East Highlands. 

 • Range of mean annual temperature 51^38. 



Native. Ericetal, &c. Throughout Britain, with an 

 apparent exception of the Shetland Isles, which I have still 

 ventm-ed to take into the county estimate, and said 82 

 rather than 81. Is rarely seen above 750 yards. Dr. 

 Dickie observed it at 2500 feet, in Aberdeenshire ; and in 

 one spot on the Clova mountains, I estimated the altitude 

 at 2700 or 2800 feet. The P. amara {Bon) is said to have 

 been found in Wiltshire, SuiTey and Kent. Of P. ox}-p- 

 tera, as an English plant, I know nothing. 



142. Frankenia l^vis, Linn. k*. h^'^^-^^^' 



Area *234**i^i^*^ (11). 

 South limit in the Isle of Wight and Kent. 

 North limit in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. 

 Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 7. 

 Latitude 50 — 53. Germanic type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



