32. BERBERACE^. 391 



401. Berberts vulgaris, Linn. 



Area 1 2 8 4 5 ,-;, 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



Noilh limit in Perthshire and Argyleshire. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 57. English (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in England. 



Ascends to 150 yards, or upwards, in Scotland. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 46. 



Denizen. Septal, &c. Admitted as a native by Hens- 

 low, Hooker and Babington ; yet writers about our local 

 botany frequently express doubts on the point. Thus, it 

 is said to be " hardly wild " in Devon, a doubtful native of 

 Somerset and the neighbourhood of Poole, " scarcely indi- 

 genous" in the Isle of Wight, doubtfully indigenous near 

 Wrexham, " certainly introduced " into Moray and the 

 neighbourhood of Aberdeen, &c., &c. I have seen it 

 sparingly in several counties, though always under condi- 

 tions to be suspected; and judging from my own observa- 

 tion, together with the frequently expressed doubts of 

 other botanists, I cannot place it higher in the scale of 

 civil claims than the second category, or that of the deni- 

 zens. Berberacese were removed to proximity with Gros- 

 sulariacese on a feeble analogy, in the London Catalogue ; 

 but being there, are so retained here for the sake of uni- 

 formity with the Catalogue which is taken for a temporary 

 index to the present work. 



