92 85. cypERACE.E. 



Ascends to 850 or 900 yards, in same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 40 — 38. 



Native. Rupestral, Ericetal. Long overlooked by the 

 botanists of Scotland, or not unlikely passed as a starve- 

 ling state of C. pulicaris. Since its first discovery by 

 Professor Dickie, in or about the year 1836, it has been 

 found in several stations ; some of the places previously 

 familiar enough to botanical tourists ; which gives rise to 

 an expectation that it may still be discovered in other 

 new localities. All the stations are included in the four 

 counties named above, so far as they are known to me. 

 Not improbably the plant should be referred to all three 

 arctic zones, and to lower and higher altitudes than above 

 indicated. By the Eev. Churchill Babington, it was found 

 " on low rocks by the road side, going from the Inn at 

 Inchnadamff, northwards, on the right hand, growing with 

 Carex capillaris." Dr. Dickie writes, — " Glen Callater, 

 not lower than 2000 feet, plentiful at 2397, but I was 

 miable to measure its highest point. Last summer Prof. 

 Balfour gathered it along with Luzula arcuata and Astra- 

 galus alpinus, on the Ben Avon range, the altitude is not, 

 however, recorded. This will be a lower limit for the L. 

 arcuata in this part of the country, than has hitherto been 

 found, since the Ben Avon range does not exceed 3920 

 feet." (London Journal of Botany, ii. 358.) Is tliis cor- 

 rect? Do Luzula arcuata and Astragalus alpinus grow 

 together in any of their stations ? If so, the indications 

 of altitude for one or the other, as before given in this 

 work, will requu'e revision. 



