202 12. CARyOPHYLLACEyE. 



The Yorkshire Flora indicates it to have been found below 

 Settle. As there appears to be no permanence in its local- 

 ities, the term ' incognit ' is applied, in preference to that 

 of ' alien ;' although it certainly has been found half-wild. 



158. SiLENE CONICA, Limi. ^ ^'^•^^^- ^.y^A 



Area :jf: ^ '^ /i \_^'\ ^ ^ ^ ^ *(11) * * 14 15. 



South limit in Kent. 



North limit in Forfarshire. 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 5. 



Latitude 51 — 57. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Thames province. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native. Glareal. Native, I presume, in the counties 

 of Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk ; and possibly so, in those of 

 Haddington and Forfar. In Durham and Northumberland, 

 it is reported only from the ballast hills. Said to have 

 been once found " in a field at Iverly; near Stourbridge," 

 by Mr. Scott, who appears to have been but a doubtful 

 sort of authority for localities of plants. It is desirable 

 that some accurate botanist would investigate the claim of 

 this species to a Scottish nativity ; as, if not really native 

 there, its range of latitude must be contracted four degrees, 

 and its zonal range kept to the lowest one only. The late 

 Dr. Graham, too prone to use exaggerated terms, said that 

 it was " profuse " on Dirleton Common, Haddingtonshire, 

 in 1 835 ; while Mr. Keddie reported it " in small quantity," 

 in 1844. 



