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north, and extending across Asia through Turkestan and MongoHa 

 to Manchuria. It is also found throughout the Indian Peninsula, 

 where, according to Hooker c^- Thompson's Flora Indica, it is 

 common on the plains outside the tropics and on the subtropical 

 mountains. 



It has already been mentioned that the Indian plant differs 

 from the type and has been referred to a var. indica by Haussk- 

 necht, according to whom the plant extending from Turkestan to 

 Manchuria is the same variety. I have seen no Central Asian 

 examples from localities east of Samarkand, one specimen from 

 the Altai region labelled F. Yaillantii being really F. Schleicheri. 

 No African specimen of this species has come under my notice. 



F. VaiUantii is recorded for : — 



Sweden {yhy. Chavini)l Denmark (.Haztss^.). Germany (with 

 var. Chavini) \ Tyrol! Switzerland (with var. ChaviniW) \ 

 Belgium {Haussk.). France (with var. Chavini) ! Spain (Hh. 

 Keiv)\ Portugal (ITcn^ssA:.). Cor^Xcd, [Haussk.]. Sardinia (fi'cn^.s.sA:.). 

 Italy ! Sicily {Hh. Kew) ! Austria ! Hungary (Hb. C. Baileij) ! 

 TmkQj [Haussk.). Gveece [Haussk.). 'Russm [Hb.Ke2u)\ Crimea! 

 Caucasus [Hb. Kew) ! 



Transcaspia [Hb. Keii')\ Asia Minor! Syria [Haussk). 

 Mesopotamia [Haussk.). Persia ! Beluchistan (var. indica — 

 Haussk.). Afghanistan (var. indica — Haussk.). Cashmir [Hb. 

 Keic) ! India (var. indica) ! Turkestan ! Altai [Haussk.). Mon- 

 goha (var. indica — Haussk.). Songarei, Manchuria (var. indica — 

 Haussk.). 



Tunis [Haussk.). Algeria [Haussk.). Canaries [Haussk.). 



F. VaiUantii is not known in the Channel Islands and is not 

 recognized by Mr. Praeger as an Irish plant. 



In Great Britain it is almost entirely an inhabitant of arable 

 land, and is rarely met with away from the chalk districts, showing 

 a predilection for calcareous ground, which has frequently been 

 remarked on the Continent. Eecords for sixteen vice-counties 

 are shown in Tojjogrcqjhical Botany and its Supplement, but of 

 these I think three should be deleted, viz. : 53. S. Lines, Streat- 

 field's specimen being F. ixirviflora ; 66. Durham, the record 

 probably referring to a casual only on ballast hihs ; and 26. W. 

 Suffolk, the record in the Flora being referred by Mr. C. E. Salmon 

 to F. parviflora. Specimens from nine of the remaining thirteen 

 vice-counties have come under my observation, the exceptions 

 being East and West Kent, N.E. Yorks, and Linlithgow ; and, in 

 addition, I have seen specimens from 7. N. Wilts (Devizes, E. S. 

 Marshall, 1901), 24. Bucks (Pitstone Hill, Salmon c{; Wallis, 1904), 

 and 33. E. Gloster (Leckhampton, Hb. St. Brodij). The number 

 of vice-counties for the species is thus restored to sixteen. 



Of the variety Chavini the only certain British examples that 

 I have seen are those already mentioned from Cambridge and 

 North Essex, but I am somewhat doubtful whether Mr. Marshall's 

 plants from Wilts, which, so far as I have seen, are very young 

 and dwarf, may not belong to the same variety. 



