152 46. ERICACE^. 



Athole Sow, in the North of Perthshire. The hill rather 

 exceeds 900 yards in elevation, and I understand that the 

 plant was found near the summit. Mr. W. Brand described 

 the locality in the New Botanist's Guide. It has also been 

 reported to grow on the Isles of Shiant, in the group of 

 Outer Hebrides ; but apparently through some en'or or 

 misinformation. See Balfour and Babington's Account of 

 the Vegetation of the Outer Hebrides, page 11. 



697. Menziesia polifolia, Juss. 



Area [5]. 



Hibernian. Incognit in Britain. This was doubtfully 

 recorded in the New Botanist's Guide, as having been 

 found by Mr. Edwin Lees on the Upper Bromsgrove Lickey, 

 Worcestershire ; and also as having been reported to occur 

 in Sherwood Forest, Notts. The former habitat was doubt- 

 less erroneous ; and if really fomid in the latter, the species 

 must have been introduced. It is too impatient of severe 

 frost to bear the winters of Sherwood Forest, as a genuine 

 native. But it is truly indigenous in Ireland. 



698. 



Azalea procumbens, Linn. >^ /'-^/'^^.^/^ 



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Area ************^^ 15 16 17 18. 

 South limit in Stirling, Perth, Forfar. 

 North Umit in Shetland, Orkney, Sutherland. 

 Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 12. 

 Latitude 56—61. Highland type of distribution. 

 Arctic region. Midarctic — Superarctic zones. 

 Descends to 500 yards, in North Highlands. 

 Ascends to 1150 or 1200 yards, in East Highlands. 



