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631. Gnaphalium supinum, Linn. 



Area ^^^^^^ifj^^jie^j^*** 15 16 171 8. 



South limit in Fife (Ochills), Stirling, Dumbarton. 



North limit in Orkney, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 15. 



Latitude 56 — 60. Highland type of distinbution. 



Arctic region. Inferarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 500 or 450 yards, in East Highlands. 



Ascends to 1400 or 1450 yards, in same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 42 — 33. 



Native. Ericetal. Recorded from twelve counties of 

 the Highlands ; and the name is likewise marked in a list 

 of British plants checked off for Orkney by the Rev. C. 

 Clouston. Kincardine and Caithness, with Shetland and 

 the Hebrides, remain unrecorded for the present species ; 

 and presumption or probability would seem to warrant the 

 inclusion of two of these four in the comital estimate, rather 

 than to fix it at 12, the next downward step in the scale. 



632. Gnaphalium uliginosum, Linn. 



Ai"ea general ? 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



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 — 46. 



