38. UMBELLIFER^. 451 



ciniura Oxycoccos : — the fonxier, through a mistranslation 

 of the word " Yam " ; the latter, through the like error re- 

 specting " Cranberries." 



482. Angelica sylvestris, Linn. 



Area, general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North Hmit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to .850 or 900 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 39. 



Native. Sylvestral, &c. This and the Heracleum are 

 the two most widely distributed species of their order, 

 with us. Other plants may be as widely and generally 

 distributed in the lower zones of the agrarian region ; but 

 none of those ascend so much among the mountains also. 

 Grows in wet and shaded places, so that it may stand 

 either as a Paludal, or as a Sylvestral and Septal. 



/>/. /y/.^-4^^^ Archangelica officinalis, Hnffm. 



Area [* * 3 4 5 ,^ * 8 *'^^ 11]. . . U^'l. 



Incognit. 1 have not been able to see a British speci- 

 men of this species, and there is only a poor garden ex- 

 ample (of it ?) preserved in Smith's herbarium. Through 

 cultivation, it may have occurred in time past, in the 

 vicinity of London, as recorded ; but the alleged habitats 

 in the other provinces, beyond that of the Thames, were 

 more likely errors respecting the species seen. 



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