86. ORAMINA. 209 



Latitude 56 — 58. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region. Superarctic zone. 



Decends to 1000 yards, less or more. 



Ascends to 1200 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature, say 37 — 34. 

 Native. Rupestral. On Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire, 

 and on Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire, according to Babing- 

 ton's Manual. Besides these two counties, also said to 

 be found in that of Forfar ; some remarks in reference to 

 this latter habitat being made under the next species ; as 

 well as in reference to their altitudes, &c. 



1334, h. PoA LAXA, " Haenk." 



Area ^**9^*^*i}.4i;**^**15 16. 



South limit in Forfar ? 



North limit in West Inverness, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 56 — 58. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region. Superarctic zone. 



Descends to 1000 yards, less or more. 



Ascends to 1200 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature, say 37 — 34. 



Native. Rupestral. On Ben Nevis, Inverness- shire, 

 and on Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire, according to Babing- 

 ton's Manual. Also, on the mountains of Clova, accord- 

 ing to half a dozen witnesses, whose names are cited in 

 Gardiner's Flora of Forfarshire, &c.,— " Hooker, Greville, 

 BurcheU, Drummond, Don, Balfour." The five fii-st 

 names may now be put down among old authorities of 

 little value when the question is, whether the Clova 

 mountain habitat belongs to P. laxa or to P. minor. But 

 the last one is a recent authority, and is adduced appa- 

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