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ing inapplicable for divisions of Britain which could 

 no longer correspond with them in boundaries or extent. 

 The county of Wilts, for instance, belongs in its parts to 

 three provinces, — the Channel, Thames, and Severn ; al- 

 though in this work the whole county is referred to the 

 second of these jjrovinces, to which its larger portion 

 does geographically belong. 



1254. Caeex clandestina, Good. 



Area 12**5. 



South limit in Somerset, Wilts. 



North limit in Hereford, Gloucester. 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 4. 



Latitude 51 — 52. English tjTpe of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagi-arian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 48. 



Native. Pascual, Rupestral. The stations of this Ca- 

 rex have been increased considerably of late, although it 

 does still remain more local m its area than might at fii-st 

 glance be gathered from the indication of three provinces, 

 by their numbers above, with two intermediate blanks. 

 The several localities are so distributed as to belong to 

 three of our provinces, although their united area, if all 

 were joined together, would not equal that of one of the 

 provmces ; and, indeed, they all lie within the great Se- 

 vern-basin, or close by its natural boundaries. The 

 following stations are on record; — Brean Down, in So- 

 merset (Rev. Thomas Butler ; Mr. T. B. Flower), Salis- 

 bury plain and elsewhere, in Wilts (Mr. Hussey ; Mr. 

 Flower), St. Vincent's Rocks, in Gloucester and Somerset 

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