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of that work the locality is to be found, I cannot say ; there 

 being no scientific arrangement, and no index to the pages 

 of the species, in the work mentioned. Aiken says that he 

 found it on the "marshy banks of the Rhyddol, near Aber- 

 ystwith," — doubtless only another example of his many 

 and glaring blunders. The Yorkshire locality merits some 

 fai-ther search or research; Mr. Ibbotson reports it at 

 "East moors, near Castle Howard, now probably extinct." 

 (See Phytol. i. 577.) 



155. SiLENE ANGLICA, liinn. 



Area 12 3 456789 10 (11) 12 13 14 15. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



Noith hmit in Moray and Ayrshire. 



Estimate of provinces 1 4. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 58. English type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagi'arian — Superagi'aiian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Agi-estal and Glareal. Pretty frequent and 

 apparently native in the south of England, where the soil 

 is dry and sandy ; as also in gravel pits. In the north of 

 England and in Scotland, it is rather a colonist than a 

 native, I fear. The figm-e (11) for the Tyne province is 

 enclosed, because the only locality in Winch's Flora of that 

 province, remains unconfinned, and was on " ballast hills." 

 The lake province is reckoned in the area solely on the 

 alleged locality of the Isle of Man ; tliis islet being taken 

 along with the small province of the Lakes, to which it is 

 nearest. Man and Ayr are the only two western counties 

 in which I am aware of localities for Silene anglica north 



