272 . 21. CELASTRACE^. 



OxALis STRICTA, Linn. /^ '^'^•^^^ .A. 4l?0 



Alien. "Naturalized at Penzance, Cornwall; and 

 Ilsington, Devon." (Bab. Man.). " Larrigan, near Pen- 

 zance" ; according to Mr. William Curnow, in the Phyt.ol- 

 ogist. But Sir W. J. Hooker significantly remarks, that, 

 "O. stricta is stated by Mr. Babington, in a paper read 

 before the British Association, 1839, to be an inhabitant of 

 gardens near Penzance." (British Flora, edit. 5.). 



24-5. EuoNYMus EUEOP.EUS, Linn. -^ i^^^-^U. Jr.^^^^ 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * 10 11 12 13 14. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Edinburghshire and Lanarkshire. 



Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 56. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 150 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Septal and Rupestral. Very local in Scotland ; 

 but the locality near Edinburgh appears a truly wild one, 

 the shrub growing out of the crevices of rocks on Arthur's 

 Seat and Salisbury Craigs, though very sparingly. Whether 

 the locality in Lanarkshire is equally good, I am not pre- 

 pared to say. Perhaps it grows sufficiently high, in the 

 north of England, to justify the extension of its ascending 

 range into the superagrariau zone, and to carry its range of 

 temperature down to 46. It may be that the proper 

 county estimate would come nearer to 50 than to 40. 



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