106 85. CYPERACEJ^.. 



1222. Carex vulpina, Linn. 



Area 1 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 14 15 16 * 18. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Hebrides, Moray, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrariau zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 46. 



Native. Paludal, Inundatal. Frequent in England ; 

 perhaps scarce, and chiefly a coast plant, in Scotland. In 

 consequence of their geographical proximity to the West 

 and North Highlands, I was at first much inclined to con- 

 sider the Outer Hebrides as adjuncts to one of these two 

 provinces, when deciding upon my provincial divisions of 

 Britain. But there being then no Flora of Shetland in 

 existence or prospect, and only incomplete lists of Ork- 

 ney plants, I thought it advisable to combine the three 

 groups, in order to make some better approximation to a 

 full list of species for the united groups, than it was then 

 at all possible to make for them separatel}^ Increased 

 knowledge has since tended to warrant the natural cha- 

 racter of that union even more than was then anticipated ; 

 few species were found in the Hebrides, which have not 

 also been found in Orkney or Shetland. Carex vulpina 

 is an exception ; this species having been found in one 

 station on the Hebrides by Balfour and Babington, al- 

 though not known in Orkney or Shetland. 



