85. CYPERACE^:. 119 



Ascends to 650 yards, in East Highlands. 



Kange of mean annual temperatiu-e 51 — 40. 



Native. Paludal. Most British botanists now appear 

 willing to re-unite these two into one si)ecies ; and I am 

 disposed to go a step farther, by holding them not worth 

 naming as separate varieties, seeing that I find myseK 

 often at a loss which name to apply to individual speci- 

 mens. Dr. Bromfield would unite with them the C. 

 distans also, but probably he confused these species to- 

 gether. C. fulva or speirostachj^a has been frequently 

 misnamed C. distans by local botanists, both collectors 

 and authors. See the remarks under head of " C. distans " 

 below. 



1338. Cabex distans, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 [10] 11 * 13 14 15 10 17 [18]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 4^1-^/ North limit in Sutherland, Banff, Argjie. 



Estimate of ]provinces 15. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 59. British type of distribution. 



Agi-arian region. Inferagi'arian — SuperagTarian zones. 



Descends to the sea level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the sea level, to Noi-th Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 46. 



Native. Littoral, Sub-littoral. A much confused spe- 

 cies ; several of its alleged stations, in all probability, be- 

 longing properly to C. speii-ostachya or to C. binervis. 

 That all the inland localities recorded for C. distans, 

 should be transferred to the other two species mentioned, 

 I am not prepared to say ; although most of them proba- 

 bly should be so assigned. The provinces of Trent and 

 Ouse [8, 10] seem likely enough to produce the C. distans, 



