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450. Apium graveolens, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (15) 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Argyleshire (and Aberdeenshire .'') 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 30. 



Latitude 50 — 56. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagraiian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 • Ascends, on the coast level, to the West or East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 48. 



Native. Littoral. Frequent on the coasts of England, 

 and in some few spots inland, where the waters are impreg- 

 nated with salt, as at Droitwich and Snodsbury. Also 

 occurs occasionally in damp places, and by road sides, as 

 a straggler introduced through ciiltivation. There appears 

 some uncertainty about the locality quoted in the Flora 

 Abredonensis ("Near the Craiglug. Dr. Murray"), and 

 it is expressly marked as an introduced plant in the Collec- 

 tanea for Moray, I have therefore deemed it advisable to 

 omit the East Highland province from its area and census, 

 and to restrict the range of latitude in accordance. Pro- 

 fessor Balfour finds it in Cantire, a part of the West High- 

 land province, but in the latitude and climate of the Low- 

 lands. 



451. Petroselinum sativum. Hoffm. 



Area (1 2 ******** 11 * 13 14 15 16). 



Alien. Universally cultivated in gardens, and occasion- 

 ally seen as a weed about road sides and iiibbish heaps, 

 both in England and Scotland ; but scarcely acquires any 



