424 38. UMBELLIFERiE. 



442. Sanicula europ^a, Linn. ^ ^^. ^^^. j^. ^Jp 



Area 1 2 3 4 5^ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. ^.^--a^^^^. 



North limit in Sutherland, Nairn, Dumbarton shii-es. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 59. British ty]oe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 300 or 350 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperatme 50 — 44. 



Native. Sylvestral. It may be that the county census 

 would rise nearer to 80 than to 75, if completely ascer- 

 tained. 



443. AsTRANTiA MAJOR, Linn. 



Area (5). 



Alien } In Shropshire and Herefordshire. "This plant 

 was, in 1840, discovered by Mr. Dl. Sharpe, in the wood 

 above Stokesay Castle, Shropshire, ' in plenty.' Mr. Bor- 

 rer this summer (1841) examined the wood, which is exten- 

 sive, and found four large patches of it along the little-fre- 

 quented path at the upper edge of the wood, and one a 

 little off from the path, near one of the four. It had every 

 appearance of being quite wild, and the locality did not 

 favom* the idea of an accidental escape from cultivation." 

 (W. A. Leighton, in Phytologist i. 111). "Between Whit- 

 bourne and Malvern. Above Stokesay Castle, near Lud- 

 low. Mr. Borrer has seen it in the latter place, and con- 

 siders it to have been introduced ' ages ago.' " (Bab. Man.). 



