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several miles below Invercauld, on the south side of the 

 river [Dee], among wood." These stations, if not the 

 same, are presumed to be somewhere between 500 and 

 1000 feet in altitude. Very slightly beyond the latitudmal 

 line of 57. 



1298. Arundo steicta, Schrad. 

 1297. Abundo lapponica, Aut. Brit. 



Area ^^^^!i^^^^\)!iii^^=if^ L15J. 



South limit in Cheshire. 



Noi-th limit in the same county. [Forfar.] 



Estimate of pro-vinces 1. Estimate of counties 1. 



Latitude 53 — 54. Local (Scot.) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Midagrarian zone. 



Descends : — ? Ascends : — ? (At a slight altitude). 



Range of mean annual temperature, say 48. 



Native. Paludal. Arundo stricta was formerly found 

 in the White-lMire (or " muir ") Moss, about one mile from 

 the town of Forfar, but was subsequently destroyed there 

 by drainage. It has recently been re-discovered by the 

 Rev. G. E. Smith, who fomid it at Oak-mere, in Delamere 

 Forest, in Cheshire. A. lapponica is not known in Bri- 

 tain ; having as yet only one recorded habitat, involving 

 one or more stations ; namely, Lough Neagh, " and other 

 places in the county of Antrim," L'eland. British de- 

 scribing authors (Arnott, Babington), now place the Irish 

 plant as a variety of the A. stricta; wliile so lately as 

 1847, Sir William Hooker declared (Lond. Jour. Bot. 

 No. 69, p. 473) that the Irish and Cheshire plants were 

 quite distinct from each other. A question arose, to what 

 distributive type a species found only in Cheshire should 

 be referred ? The fact of the other, though now extinct, 



