12. CARYOPHYLLACE/E. 199 



North limit in Kincardineshii'e and Flintshire. 



Estimate of provinces 7. Estimate of comities 12. 



Latitude 50 — 57. Local type of distiibution. 



Agi-arian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends nearly to the coast level in England. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatm-e 51 — 48. 



Native. Rupestral. The distribution of this species 

 cannot be satisfactorily given ; paitly, because the name 

 has been misapphed, and false localities consequently in- 

 troduced into books ; partly, because it is doubtful where 

 the tnie species is wild, and where it exists only as an 

 introduced plant. I have only one locality for the Penin- 

 sula ; namely, at its northern extremity, on the authority 

 of the Flora Bathoniensis, which questions the tnie nativity 

 there. Again, somewhat unexpectedly, I find the name 

 marked in a hst of Isle of Wight plants, which Dr. Brom- 

 field kindly checked for me, before leaving England ; and 

 that being my sole authority for the second province, I 

 should have prefeiTed to ascertain from Dr. B. (now abroad) 

 whether the mark was intentionally or inadvertently affixed 

 to the name of ' nutans :' perhaps it ought to stand so ; for 

 Dr. Bromfield rarely is inadvertent in his botanical doings. 

 Next, we have the third province to consider ; and here, 

 on the clifFs of Kent, some species certainly does grow ; 

 and to which the various names of " nutans," " italica," 

 " patens," and " paradoxa," have been appUed, in a medley 

 of confusion which I am not just now prepared to um-avel. 

 S. nutans is reported also from Hertfordshire, by Mess. 

 Webb and Coleman, "probably introduced." For the 

 province of Ouse, a locality has been published " in the 

 corn, between Harrington and Wakerley," on authority of 

 Morton's Histoiy of Northamptonshire ; but this species 

 is not a coni-field plant, and some other was more likely 



