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157. SlLENE NOCTIFLORA, Limi. 



Area * 2 3 4 5 * * 8 .^ 10 11 * * 14 15. 



South limit in Sussex, Berkshire, Worcestershire. 



North limit in Forfarshire and Fifeshire. 



Estimate of provinces 9. Estimate of counties 25, 



Latitude 50 — 57. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zone. 



Descends nearly to the coast level, (in Channel?) 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 47. 



Colonist. Agrestal. A scarce species, of questionable 

 origin in Britain, though now well established. The 

 Scottish localities are highly suspicious. The late George 

 Don deemed that, in the " sandy corn fields, near the 

 Havens or Hains, by the sea side," in Forfarshire, was " the 

 only known habitat in Scotland, where it can be reckoned 

 truly indigenous." 



SiLENE Armeria, Limi. 



Area [* ^3*****9 10]. 



Incognit. Frequently cultivated in gardens, as an orna- 

 mental annual; and absurdly introduced into the floras 

 of Britain, because somebody once found it by the side of 

 the Dee, near Chester ; whither it had doubtless been 

 conveyed, by the water or otherwise, from one of the many 

 gardens which slope down to the edge of the stream, along 

 the course of the Dee at Chester. Mr. Borrer observed it 

 in a corn field at Weybridge. Mess. Webb and Coleman 

 give it as a scarcely naturalised plant in Hertfordshire. 



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