f*-i 85. CYPERACE^. 



1209. Caeex stellulata, Good. 



Ai'ea general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 J^^^i^i^-^ North limit in^Orkney, Hebrides, Sutherland. 



Estimate of j)rovLnces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 1000 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 37. 



Native. Paludal. It is seldom that I venture to esti- 

 mate a comital generality for any plant not enumerated in 

 the Flora of Shetland. But a species so very frequent as 

 this is in Britain, found in Orkney and Faroe, and distri- 

 buted over all Scandinavia, would appear very likely to 

 occur in Shetland ; and its omission from a Shetland Flora, 

 penned by quite a young botanist, without local assistants 

 in botanical research, will scarcely be held to negative 

 the probability in favour of its occurrence somewhere in 

 that group of isles. 



Carex erizoides. 



Area [10]. 



Incognit ? " Studley Wood, Yorkshire. Mr. W. Mac 

 Ivor ;"— Bab. Man. edit. 3. This is the only information 

 that I possess about C. brizoides being found in Britain. 

 And having seen no British specimen, and knowing no- 

 thing whatever about the botanical fideKty of Mr. W. Mac 

 Ivor, I prefer not to hold the plant as an established 



