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Linneea borealis, a plant interesting to all botanists on account of 

 its name, — the chosen symbol of the ' Phytologist,' — and, moreover, a 

 species so restricted in its distribution as to excite interest on that 

 score also, — is thus treated. 



" 511. LlNN^EA BOREALIS, GrOtlOV. 



" Area ****-**-** *•* 11 *r* 14 15 & 17. 



" South limit in Northumberland or Berwickshire. 



" North limit in Ross, Moray, Banff, Aberdeen. 



" Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 10. 



" Latitude 55—58. Scottish type of distribution. 



" A. A. regions. Midagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



" Descends to a moderate altitude, say 100 yards. 



" Ascends to 800 or 850 yards, in East Highlands. 



" Range of mean annual temperature, 46 — 38. 



" Native. Sylvestral. This little plant, so much a favorite with 

 botanists, has been found in the counties of Northumberland, Ber- 

 wick, Edinburgh, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, 

 and Ross, and to these ten, perhaps, it might not have been deemed 

 too hasty to make an addition, by setting down the estimate at 12. 

 Apparently absent from the western side of Scotland ; and unknown 

 in England, except for the single locality ' in a plantation of Scotch 

 Firs, at Catcherside, in the parish of Hartburn' (Miss Emma Treve- 

 lyan, in Hook. Brit. Flo.) ; on the genuine nativity of which a doubt 

 has been thrown, because the trees are said to have been brought from 

 Norway : was this the fact ?" — p. 11. 



Erica ciliaris, a very local species, gives occasion for the introduc- 

 tion of various memoranda and notices, descriptive and historical. 

 We cite the author's remarks entire. 



" 691. Erica ciliaris, Linn. 

 " Area 1 2 [3]. 

 " South limit in Cornwall. 

 " North limit in Dorset. 



" Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 2. 

 " Latitude 50 — 51. Atlantic type of distribution. 

 " Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 

 " Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 " Ascends to 50 yards, more or less. 

 " Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 51. 



