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native. It is said to have occurred in Essex, Durham, 

 Northumberland, Fife, Forfar j but under circumstances, 

 or on authority, very much to be distrusted. 



671. Achillea Ptarmica, Linn. 



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. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 700 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 40, 



Native. Pratal, Ericetal, &c. Evinces so decided a 

 tendency to damp places, as to come very near the class of 

 Paludal or Uliginal plants. Ascends to 800 yards in Cum- 

 berland. 



671, b. Achillea serrata, Sm. 



" Achillea decolorans, Schrad^ 



Area [l*j^j^*j^*8* 10]. 



Incognit ? This has been reported from Somerset (Mr. 

 T. B. Flower), Derby (Mr. Rapp, in Eng. Bot), York 

 (Mr. Mann, Bot. Soc. Edinburgh ! ) The plant figured in 

 English Botany, and a fragment of one in my herbarium, 

 sent to me by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, belong 

 to some other species than A. Ptarmica; and such also 

 would appear to be the case with a specimen sent by Mr. 

 Flower to Mr. Babington, from Somerset. Nevertheless, I 



