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hesitate about assigning either name to them. Perhaps 

 this intermediate plant is Wahlenberg's variety ' alpestris,' 

 placed by that Author under A. pratensis. The spike is 

 less dense than in either of the species named, longer 

 and more slender than that of A. alpinus ; the glumes, 

 pales, and awns are longer than those of A. alpinus, 

 shorter than those of A, pratensis ; glumes and pales 

 narrower and more purple than in either of them ; the 

 under surface of the leaves much smoother than in A. 

 pratensis. See a query under head of Phleum Michelii ? 



1278. Alopecueus pratensis, lAnn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



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



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Suj)eragrariaii zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 400 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 



Native. Pratal. This very common British grass was 

 not observed in the Hebrides by Messrs. Babington and 

 BaKour ; but its general occurrence elsewhere in the 

 agrarian region would seem to warrant the inclusion of 

 those isles in the comital estimate. Perhaps it has been 

 introduced to some of its liigher and more northerly 

 stations, like Phleum pratense. Included in Trevelyan's 

 list of Faroe plants, which so far countenances the suppo- 

 sition of its being native up to the North Isles of Scot- 

 land ; although it may possibly have been introduced to 

 these and to Faroe also. 



