104 85. CYPERACE.E. 



however, we find the late Mr. Thomas Eclmonclston re- 

 cording this sea-side Carex, as fomid by hunself on the 

 " Pentland Hills," near Edmburgh (Phytol. i. 405), annu- 

 ally frequented by botanists who had never seen it there 

 or anywhere else in the same neighbourhood (Bot. Soc. 

 Ed. Cat., &c.), the record becomes highly rejjrehensible, 

 — ^that is, on account of the uninquirmg carelessness of 

 scientific truth which it implied in the botanist, and which 

 win probably throw increased doubt upon other unlikely 

 locaUties published from the same observer, zealous and 

 acute though he certainly was as a youthful botanist. 

 The locahty of Copgrove, in Yorkshire (Winch, Add. N. 

 B. G.), is doubtless also erroneous. The species may have 

 been found formerly at the alleged locality of " Kenning- 

 ton," in Surrey. Mr. Babingion restricts C. divisa to 

 " the southern and eastern coasts," and admits it an inha- 

 bitant ia Scotland (IManual). 



1220. Carex mjEiCATA, Linn. 



Ai-ea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 16. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray, Aberdeen, Dumbarton. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagi'arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperatiu'e 52 — 47. 



Native. Pascual, Glareal, &c. If Dr. Stuart correctly 

 reported this species as growing " in Glen Lochy," Perth- 

 shire (Lightf. Scot.), it may ascend to 200 yards, and up- 

 wards, so far north as the East Highlands, and gi'ow in 



