83. RESTIACE^. 37 



1149. Eriocaulon septangulaee, With. 



Area ^^^^^^^^j^^ju**^^* 16. 



South limit in the Isle of Coll, West Highlands. 



North limit in the Isle of Skye, West Highlands. 



Estimate of provinces 1. Estimate of counties 1. 



Latitude 56 — 58. Local (Scottish) tj^pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Superagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in West Highlands. 



Ascends, probably, but little above the coast level. 



Eange of mean annual tem^jerature, about 47. 



Native. Lacustral. Long known as an inhabitant of 

 one or more lakes in the Isle of Skye. The Author of the 

 British Flora adds also " CoU, and a few of the neighbour- 

 ing islands of the Hebrides." I know not which of the 

 neighbouring isles are here intended, nor on what personal 

 authority the statement is made. The actual narrow area 

 of tliis plant places it most nearly among those of the 

 Scottish type ; while its extension also into the West of 

 Ireland brings it so far nearer to the Atlantic (or West- 

 ern) rather than confirming it to the Scottish (or boreal) 

 type. It is, indeed, anomalous in the European Flora, 

 and constitutes one of the few connecting links between 

 the botany of Eastern America and Western Britain, 

 like the Neottia gemmipara and (if really indigenous) the 

 Sisyrinchium anceps of Ireland. 



1150. JUNCUS FILIFORMIS, Linil. 



Ai-ea * -;tj [3 * * * .-u * 9] * * 12 ^ * [15 * * 18]. 

 South limit in Westmoreland. 

 North limit in Cumberland. 



