190 12. CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 



has supplied my herbarium with specimens from the Isle 

 of Wight ; it is in that of the Botanical Society of London, 

 communicated by Mr. Lewis, from the neighbourhood of 

 Windsor ; and a specimen is in Smith's herbarium, 

 marked " wild out of St. Austin's Gates," Norwich, and ap- 

 parently collected there by Mr. Pitchford, in 1797. To 

 these three counties that of Sussex may be added, on good 

 authority. I fear that the "meadows between Hampton 

 Court and Teddington " may produce only D. deltoides ; 

 and the "marl-pit at Landridge Hill, neai" Hanley Castle," 

 Worcestershire, is stated to be miproductive of the present 

 species, though fonnerly reported for it. 



146. DiANTHUS Armeria, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 * 9 10 11 * * * 15. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Durham and Forfarshire. 



Estimate of provinces 12. Estimate of counties 25. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagraidan — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends neai'ly to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Pascual and Viatical. A scarce plant, al- 

 though its provincial area is pretty wide. Judging by the 

 reports of its localities, the situations of growth are very 

 variable. I have met with it sparingly on clayey pasture, 

 and once in a clover field, also on clay. Dr. Bossey 

 showed me a locality in Kent (where, at the time, we did 

 not sec any example, though he had previously found the 

 plant), by a road-side, on sandy ground. Woods and 

 hedge-banks are also named by some of its collectors. I 



