196 12. CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 1000 yards, or upwards, in West Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperatui-e 52 — 36. 



Native. Littoral and Rupestral. This is one of our few 

 examples of a maritime species reappearing also as an 

 alpine or arctic species ; like the better known example of 

 Armeiia maritima. But the present species, less rarely than 

 the latter, also occurs in the inteiinediate mountain valleys 

 at a moderate altitude. On the coast, some specimens of 

 Silene maritima become so veiy like those of S. inflata, as 

 to be hardly distmguishable, unless by then- larger and 

 more upright flowers ; but the specimens from the arctic 

 region are mostly very dwarf, with a prostrate habit and 

 solitaiy flowers. 



154. Silene Otites, Sm. 



Area^* ^ 3| 4 [* 6 * * -* 10]. 



South hmit in Sufiblk. u^-^ 



North Hmit in Norfolk. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 52 — 53. Gennanic type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends nearly to the coast level, in Ouse. 



Ascends to (say, 50 yards), in same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49-6r-4§, ^' ' ^"^ 



Native. Glareal ? An extremely local species, and 

 perhaps better refeiTed to the ' Local' than to the ' Gennanic ' 

 type. The comities of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge 

 are those only in which the reported localities can be re- 

 lied upon. The name occm-s in the alphabetical list of 

 species in Cooper's Flora Metropolitana ; but in what page 



