78 85. CYPERACE^. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 400 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Ericetal, Uliginal. Some uncertainty attends 

 the provincial area indicated for this species. Dr. Neill 

 mentioned it in his Tour in Orkney, as seen plentifully on 

 Hoy hills ; but Mr. Syme supposes that Neill mistook 

 S. multicaulis for the present species ; and I think there 

 is no other published authority for the North Isles. 

 Among the Orkney plants, believed to have been collected 

 by Dr. Gillies, is a specimen of S. csespitosus, labelled S. 

 pauciflonis. I have myself not seen any English speci- 

 men of S. pauciflonis from localities southward of Norfolk 

 and Cheshire ; and yet there are a dozen good or admis- 

 sible authorities for its occurrence in many counties of 

 the six most southerly provinces. Probaby it rises into 

 the arctic region ; for I think it was seen above 2000 feet 

 of elevation in Cumberland. 



1195. Scmpus PARVULUS, R. <& S. 



Area [* 2]. 



Extinct ? Said to have been found on a mud flat near 

 Lymiugton, where it has since been sought unsuccessfully. 

 See the remarks of Dr. Bromlield, in Phytologist, iii. 

 1028. 



