50. GENTIANACEiE. 173 



North limit in Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, ^t-^^'^ 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 200 yards, more or less, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 45. 



Native. Pascual, Glareal. I do not recollect to have 

 myself seen this species anywhere above 500 feet of eleva- 

 tion J but in some of its recorded habitats, as in Teesdale 

 Forest, it may probably be found much higher. The G. 

 germanica has been reported from the counties of Hants, 

 Berks, Herts, Pembroke, and York. 



722. Gentiana campestkis, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Dorset, Sussex, Kent ? 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 70. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 800 or 850 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 39. 



Native. Pascual. My data, published and unpublished, 

 show this species in sixty counties ; two or three of which 

 are probably erroneous, through mistakes between G. Ama- 

 rella and the present species. About ten other counties 

 seem likely to produce it, among those for the plants of 

 which we possess the least ample catalogues. T think it is 

 rare above the limits of the inferarctic region ; but as it 

 grows with Astragalus alpinus in Aberdeenshire, and also 



