41. RUBIACE^. 15 



Agi-arian region. Inferagi-arian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 500 yards, in East Highlands (Dickie). 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Paludal. I have not met with this common 

 species above 1100 feet in the Highlands; but Dr. Dickie 

 reports it at 1500. The G. Witheringii seems hardly de- 

 serving of a distinctive name as a mere variety : it probably 

 may be found in every province ; being recorded in Shet- 

 land and the Isle of Wight, with numerous intermediate 

 counties. But Professor Henslow and other botanists have 

 regarded Withering's plant as a form of G. uliginosura. 



Xsc t'^-^^f./t-^^S. 5ig Galium uliginosum, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1 * 13 14 15 * [17] 18. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, ? 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of chstribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England, 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 45. 



Native. Paludal. It appears probable that the present 

 species is frequently confused with G. palustre, and some- 

 times with G. pusillum ; and in this case its actual distri- 

 bution, both provincial and comital, may be more nearly 

 general than is indicated above, especially when we observe 

 that the three provinces left blank, or excluded, are pre- 

 cisely those for which we have still only incomplete lists of 

 species. According to Fries, G. uliginosum is distributed 

 throughout Scandinavia ; and the name occurs in the list 



