90 85. CYPERACE^. 



unless those of Berks, Bucks, Hunts, and Northampton, 

 or some of them, may be exceptions to a comital gene- 

 rality. 



1206. Carex pauciflgra, Light/. 



Ai-ea * * * * [5] * * * * 10 11 * 13 * 15 16 17. 



South limit in N.E. York, Dumfries (W. Stevens). 



North limit in Sutherland. 



Estimate of i3ro-\dnces 6. Estimate of counties 16. 



Latitude 54 — 59. Highland tj-pe of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Superagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to 250 yards, or lower, in East Highlands. 



Ascends to 850 yards, in same province, 



Eange of mean annual temperature 45 — 39, 



Native. Uliginal, Ericetal. Rather frequent on the 

 Highland mountains, between 500 and 700 yards of alti- 

 tude ; very local elsewhere. There is something excep- 

 tional and note-worthy in the more southerlj' habitats of 

 this species. It is an inferalpine or subalpine plant, reap- 

 pearmg in the Lowlands and north-eastern provinces of 

 England, without passing to the Cumbrian or Cambrian 

 mountains, as would seem by our records. Comus suecica 

 afforded a similar instance. Possibly the lowest altitude, 

 in jjroportion to latitude and distance from mountains, 

 may be the habitat in the north-east of Yorkshire, be- 

 tween Pickering and Whitby, which appears to have been 

 visited hitherto only by mere collectors of specimens; 

 and therefore we have no better information about it, 

 than the simple record that C. pauciflora gi'ows some- 

 where, at some elevation, in some sort of situation, left 

 to the imagination. But Whitby being on the coast, 

 Pickering probably of trifling elevation, and the neigh- 



