133 85. CYPERACE^. 



being on the coast, about foiu' miles southward from 

 Whitehaven. How Mr. Oliver knew the plant to be C. 

 punctata, is not stated ; but he adds, " I have not, to my 

 knowledge, seen this plant from anj' other station." I 

 fear that our British specimens, if not all other exam- 

 ples of C. punctata, are but varieties of C. distans. 



1239. Carex binervis, Sin. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of j)rovinces 18. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British tyj^e of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 1050 j^ards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 36. 



Native. Ericetal. By uniting the inland " C. distans," 

 so called, with the present species, the county estimate 

 would be raised to 80 ; the name of " binerAis " being 

 absent from some of the inland lists and floras, where that 

 of " distans " is included. I have only twice noted this 

 si^ecies so high as 1000 yards, and both notes relate to 

 Ben-na-bourd, though at diff"erent spots on the hill. On 

 that hill Calluna vulgaris attains to the unusual height of 

 nearly 1100 yards. In most parts of the Highlands the 

 altitude of 1000, yards would imply the sui^erarctic zone, 

 as being above the limit of the Calluna. 



