38. UMBELLIFER^E. 463 



^ ^><x>''- 500*. Ch^rophvllum aromaticum, " Linn.'" 



Ai-ea (15). 



Alien. " By the side of the river called Lunan and Ven- 

 nie, not far from Guthrie." (G. Don). 



Ch^rophyllum aureum, Linn. 



/^///' Area (14 15). 



r-^^fi^. Alien. Said to have been found at Corstorphine, near 

 Edinburgh ; also by the sides of corn-fields, between Ar- 

 broath and Montrose. 



/>^. /^''.Jt-i^o^ 501. Myrrhis odorata, Scop. 



Area 1 * 3 * 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. 



South limit in Somerset and SuiTey. 



North limit in the Hebrides and Ross-shire. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 59. Scottish type of distribution. 



Agrarian- region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends nearly to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 200 or 300 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatm-e 49 — 45. 



Denizen. Septal, &c. Either native or perfectly natu- 

 ralized in the more northerly provinces of England ; esta- 

 blished, though less like a native, in severtil places in Scot- 

 land. In the provinces of the Thames and Peninsula, ex- 

 tremely local ; and, perhaps, it would have been better to 

 treat the plant as only an alien in those provinces ; con- 



