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corniculnixia, Lychnis J!m-ciicidi, Pedicularis sylvatica and 

 P. palustris^ Mcnyanthcs trifoliata, and other marsh and hill- 

 side plants. It is found in open meadows near woods and 

 in the woodland glades, also in marshy spots in the hollows 

 of hills and of woody heaths, and about the adjoining gullies 

 and hill-slopes ; but is shy and difficult of approach in the 

 hot sunshine. 



Its range is more northern than that of the last species. 

 In Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire it used to 

 be abundant, and is still to be found in certain localities. In 

 the Cambridgeshire fen-lands, where Mr. Doubleday found it 

 abundantly in 181-1, it appears to have become very scarce, 

 and this seems to be the case also in Norfolk. In Devon it 

 has been taken at Bickleigh Vale and near Barnstaple, but is 

 very rare ; more common in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, 

 and Bei-kshire ; scarce in Surrey, Sussex, Hants, and Suffolk ; 

 but is apparently spreading southward, and most likely may 

 be found in some secluded marshy meadow in every southern 

 county. It is also recorded from Lancashire, Carlisle, 

 and the Lake District ; but records from the Midland and 

 mid-western districts seem to be wanting. In Wales it has 

 been found plentifully near Swansea, more rarely near 

 Penarth, and very uncommonly in Pembrokeshire. Much 

 more generally distributed in Scotland, where it has been 

 taken in Roxburghshire, near Glasgow, at Dunoon, and various 

 parts of Argyleshire, commonly near Oban ; also at Kerrera in 

 Sutherlandshire, Perthshire, and at Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. 

 In Ireland also widely distributed, having been found near 

 Cork, at Athenry, Killarney, Glandore, New Glendalough 

 in the county Wicklow, Connemara, Gal way, Sligo, Down, 

 and Antrim. Abroad it ranges through Eastern, Central, 

 and Western Europe, Asia Minor, Persia, and parts of 

 Siberia. 



