426 38. UMBELLIFER.E. 



some mistake, both of plant and county. Hooker marks 

 E. campestre as an introduced species; Babington allows 

 it to be a native ; and in Henslow's Catalogue, also, it has 

 the same title or privilege awarded to it. Perhaps, we 

 might safely treat it as a denizen ; though it is likely to 

 become reduced to its two localities in the province of 

 Tyne. These are described thus, by my valued botanical 

 correspondent, Mr. Storey ;^" There are but two stations 

 for E. campestre, on the Dmham side of the TjTie. One 

 is at the eastern extremity of JaiTow ballast hills ; the 

 other at the Salt-meadows, near Friar's Goose. The plant 

 is found in great abundance in both stations, which may 

 be about five miles apart." (Nov. 1843). 



446. CoNiUM MACULATDM, Linn. 



Area, general. 



South Umit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Orkney, Hebrides, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 81. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagi-arian — Superagi-arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatm'e 52 — 46. 



Native. Viatical and Septal. Generally distributed, as 

 is evident from the above epitome of its area, &c. ; but it 

 is not one of our commonest species. I have seen a plant 

 of the Conium eleven feet high, growing close by the side 

 of a stream, in Surrey ; so that a humid situation would 

 seem more suitable for the species than the drj^ hedge- 

 banks, on which it often occurs. 



