210 12. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



Native. Littoral. Apparently to be found in almost 

 every coast county from Sussex, round by the western 

 coasts, to the Fam Islands, Northumberland. Between 

 these extremes, on the eastern side of England, we have it 

 recorded only from Suffolk, with any certainty. But the 

 species is even yet only imperfectly understood by English 

 botanists ; and though, on the whole, our information 

 about the botany of the eastern provinces is more com- 

 plete than that of the western provinces, this difference 

 scarcely holds with respect to the littoral plants of England ; 

 the shores of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire requiring much 

 more examination than has hitherto been bestowed upon 

 them. Included in Cooper's list of Metropolitan plants, 

 but I do not know on what authority, nor where is the pre- 

 cise locality intended. 



169. Sagina apetala, Linn, j^ l//^. f//,^ ^^J. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 * * [18]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Forfarshire and about Glasgow. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian 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. Glareal, Viatical, &c. I suspect that the names 

 of this one and the two preceding species are frequently 

 inter-changed or misapplied by botanists ; and if so, their 

 distribution may be incorrectly given. Dr. Neill men- 

 tions this as a species observed by himself in Orkney ; but 

 as it is omitted from the floras of Moray and Aberdeen, and 



