RARE AND REMARKABLE PLANTS. 135 
attaining the highest position in the cultivated region, or 
“ Agrarian Region ” of the author of the C'ybele Britannica. 
On reference to my lists, I find upwards of 550 flowering 
plants and ferns recorded as growing in this district. 
Arranging these according to their “types of distribu- 
tion,” ten, or perhaps more, belong to the “ Atlantic 
type "—that is, “species that have their head-quarters in 
the south-west of England, and run out northward and 
eastward ;” two to the Germanic type, viz., Ophrys apifera 
and muscifera ; and one only to the “Hishland type,” 
Lycopodium alpinum, which reaches its southernmost 
limits in this part of the county; three appertain to the 
“ Scottish type,” Empetrum nigrum, Listera cordata, and 
Lycopodium selago ; 108 to the “ English type,” “ species 
which have their head-quarters in England, especially in 
the southern provinces, and become rare and finally cease 
altogether towards the north.” The rest, with the excep- 
tion of a few of uncertain type, belong to the “ British 
type,” species which are more or less generally diffused 
throughout the whole extent of Britain. 
The foregoing is necessarily but a hasty attempt at esti- 
mating the number of indigenous species ; it neither in- 
cludes varieties nor any species doubtfully wild. In the 
plants particularly specified, I believe I have named some 
of those most worthy of notice ; but as there is no work 
published on the botany generally of this county to which 
reference can be made, I am in doubt whether I may not 
have called attention to species more universally distributed 
over the county than Iam aware of. As regards the lit- 
toral species, possibly all those observed here range along 
the whole extent of the Somerset coast. In a short list 
appended to the Natural History of Portishead, I see the 
names of many such. Ina county so extensive as this, 
