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1S38, b. Cabex punctata, " Gaud." 



Area l-;^*;)f^*7*^iif* [12]. 



South limit in Cornwall. [Cumberland ?] 



North Hmit in Anglesea or Caernarvon. 



Estimate of ijrovinces 2. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 50 — 54. Local (Atla.) tj'pe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the coast level, to North Wales. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 49. 



Native. Sublittoral. A very local and dubious species, 

 which has been seen by few English botanists. During 

 several j^ears, the only trust-worthy habitat on record, 

 was that "near Beaumaris." (Hook. Brit. Flora). Ba- 

 bington gives the habitat differently, ''' Banks of the 

 Menai, near Bangor." (Manual). Hooker and Arnott 

 (Brit. Flora, edit. 6) convert these two descriptions into 

 two localities, whether correctly or erroneously, I am not 

 able to say. More recently, two other habitats have been 

 added, in Cornwall and Cumberland. Mr. T. Westcombe, 

 the discoverer of the Cornish station, says, " The locality, 

 as nearly as I can describe it, is by the side of the foot- 

 path on the face of the cliff, on the coast south of St. 

 Austell, and three-fourths of a mile westward of Charles- 

 tomi" (Phytologist iii. 57). The (only?) Cornish speci- 

 men passed through my hands, between Mr. Westcombe 

 and Dr. Boott. I felt some doubt of the name at the 

 time, and still do so, but Dr. Boott pronounced it C. 

 punctata ; and his decision will be held to settle the 

 doubt, I presume. The habitat in Cumberland was re- 

 ported by Mr. Daniel Oliver, who describes the station as 

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