194 12. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Denizen. Littoral and Viatical. Has much the appear- 

 ance of being native on the coasts of Gomwall and Devon, 

 and possibly is so elsewhere on the English coast. The 

 inland localities are more to be suspected, being usually 

 near houses or villages, and the plants frequently double- 

 flowered, as in gardens ; moreover, it is a species remark- 

 ably tenacious of the ground, by its numerous subterranean 

 suckers, creeping like those of couch-grass, and is thus 

 likely to be carried away with other garden superfluities, 

 and to root afresh wherever thrown. The late J. E. Bow- 

 man said that it is undoubtedly wild in many spots, by the 

 margins of streams, near Wrexham, in North Wales. The 

 Rev. G. Gordon esteems it merely introduced into Moray. 



Saponaria Vaccaria, Linn. ^ Z"-^^- '^. /^. ->^/l 



Area {^ * 3). fr. /rj 



Alien. A casual straggler, introduced with clover seed, 

 flax, or otherwise. It has occurred in Berkshire and Hert- 

 fordshire ; and Mr. Brichaii states (Phytol. i. 553.) that it 

 was found by Mr. Wilson, in July, 1842, in a field of flax, 

 in the parish of Alves, Moray. 



152. CcJCUBULDS BACCIFER, Linn. 



Area (* * 3) . 



Alien. Originally introduced into British lists, through 

 some mistake respecting an Anglesea plant. (See Linn. 

 Corresp. ii. p. 171.) Recently, however, Mr. Luxford has 

 discovered the real plant, and thus describes the station : 

 " The locality in the Isle of Dogs is on the banks of the 



