The Southern Element in the British Flora. 



521 



Ireland 



West 



East 



Character of habitat 



IVice-Oounties 



in 

 Great Britain 



Divisions 

 in Ireland 



Type according to 

 Watson 



'* 



! 



!f 



throughout 



Waterf. and Tipper. 

 ^oupjhout 



^oughout 



I 



D 



onegal 



Clare to Donegal 

 ^ f^ork and Kerry 



^roughout 



Wicklow to 



Antrim 

 throu^^hout 



Woods 



Pastures 



Pastures and Woods 



throughout 



throughout 



Wicklow 



throughout 



Woods 



Woods 



Aquatic 



Woods 



Aquatic 



Pastures 



Pastures 



Damp Moss 



Damp Moss 



4 



9 



/ 



Very damp rocks 



i12 



6 



29 

 7 

 7 



11 



31 



47 



4 



Damp Rocks 

 Rocks 

 Shady rocks 



8 

 13 



37 



6 



40 



3 



23 



26 



12 



Engl. 



Atl. Scott.? 



Brit. 



Loc. Engl. 

 Germ. 

 Engl. 

 Atl, Engl. 

 Atl. Engl. 

 Atl. Engl. 



Atl. 



Atl. Highl 



6 

 3 



37 



Brit. 



Atl. 

 Atl. 



Atl. Brit. 





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t 



\j 



f." 



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native) is absent in Great Britain is the Mediterranean Atropis festuciformis^ 

 to which A. Foucaudii might be added, if it can really be accepted as 

 a distinct species. Generally diffused along the coasts of Great Britain and 

 Ireland are 7 species, of which 3 are Atlantic and 4 Mediterranean, whilst 

 one of each class is absent 



in Ireland, although widely distributed in 



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Great Britain. They are Limonmm rulgare and Atropis rupestris. 



Taking the whole of the Western, Southern and Eastern British coasts 

 we have 



West 35 (12 Atl., 23 Med.j. 



East 30 (11 Atl., 19 3Ied.). 



South 41 (16 Atl., 25 Med.). 

 Thus the proportion of 3 : 5 of the Atlantic and Mediterranean shares 

 •s still maintained in the south and the east, whilst in the west the Mediter- 

 ranean element is slightly more prevalent. It has also to be added that 

 excluding the widely diffused species most of the littoral plants of the 

 southern type reach their northern limit on the east coast in Norfolk. 



As to Ireland, there is practically no difference between the eastern 

 and western sides of the island, whether we take into consideration the 



