14. MALVACE^. 239 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Viatical. Doubtful whether this is truly in- 

 digenous northward of the Grampians, but I venture to 

 describe it so up to the Murray firth, as there appear several 

 localities in the East Highland province ; and it is stated 

 to be rather common in Moray. Abundant in the south of 

 England, but decreasing so much in a northerly direction, 

 that it might be almost as correctly referred to the ' Eng- 

 lish,' as to the 'British' type of distribution. Although M. 

 moschata is indicated only in the two lower zones, and this 

 one is carried up to the third, their range of temperature is 

 almost unavoidably set down the same. The occurrence 

 of the former about Perth implies a mean temperature 

 below 48 ; and yet the extension of the latter to Kessoch, 

 on the Murray firth, will scarce justify a temperature so low 

 as 4b". 



206. Malva kotundifolia, Linn 



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



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray and Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 yards in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Viatical. Much less plentiful than M. sylvestris. 

 Equally with the other two, Mr. Gordon considers this to 

 be only a doubtful native of Moray. And as with those, 

 the type of distribution is intermediate between English 

 and British. 



