388 31. ILLECEBRACE^. 



ceding species ; and, like that one, it might be as correct- 

 ly referred to the Local type. 



397. Herniaria glabra, Linn. ^ ^'t^'^- ^^f . ^ ■ ^-3/. 

 397,c. Herniaria ciliata, Bab. 



Area 1 [2] 34***8***** [14] (15). 



South limit in Cornwall and Middlesex ? 



North limit in Lincolnshire and ? 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 8. 



Latitude 50 — 54. English or Local type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 50 or 100 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 



Native. Glareal. Reported to have been found in the 

 counties of Cornwall, Somerset, Hants, Middlesex, Suf- 

 folk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Lincoln, Nottingham, Bei-wick 

 and Perth. In Perthshire it is expressly allowed to be 

 only an escape from a garden. Berwickshire is mention- 

 ed in a billet or report of a meeting of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, and requires to be confirmed on 

 the individual authority of some known botanist. The 

 county of Nottingham rests on old and doubtful authority ; 

 and the same may be said of Somerset and Hampshire. 

 I possess specimens only from Cornwall. I have seen no 

 authenticated example of H ciliata; but neither in the 

 specimens which are presumed to belong to that alleged 

 species, nor in the characters indicated for it by Mr. 

 Babington, can I find anything to warrant the conviction 

 of its being a species truly distinct from H. glabra. The 

 name of the latter, indeed, is a very bad one for a plant 

 which is so variable in reference to pubescence. 



