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of the Outer Hebrides ' had not been pubUshed, it is pro- 

 bable that the present species might have been here as- 

 signed to the Enghsh type of distribution, or to the British 

 type passing into the English. And yet the information 

 given by Balfour and Babington, in the publication refeiTed 

 to, would suggest the idea of the plant being more correctly 

 assigned to the British type, slightly shading off towards 

 the Atlantic. Although not among the most common, it is 

 decidedly a frequent species in England ; and it is marked 

 as being of the highest degree of frequency, " very common," 

 in the Edinburgh Catalogue. In the low grounds between 

 the Firth of Forth and the line of the Grampian Mountains 

 several localities are known to produce the species, and 

 some of them plentifully. NorthwaicHlom Forfarshu-e it 

 would appear to be very rare ; and the Rev. G. Gordon 

 doubts whether it be truly indigenous in the single locality 

 mentioned in the ' Collectanea for a Flora of Moray.' On 

 the western side of Scotland, I am not aware of any re- 

 corded locality between the river Clyde and the Hebrides ; 

 where, however, it is stated to occur in North Uist, Harris, 

 and Lewis ; so that its existence in the intermediate pro- 

 vince of the West-Highlands seems highly probable, and 

 induces an addition of one to the estimated number of 

 provinces. 



515. Galium palustre, Linn. 

 515,b. Galium Witheringii, Sm. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 

 Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 

 Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



