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746. Veronica spicata, Linn. 

 746, b. Veronica hybrida, Linn. 



Area 1 * [3] 4 5 [6] 7 * * * * 12 * * * ^ * [18]. ^ 



South limit in Suffolk, Somerset or Gloucester. » 



North limit in N. Lancash. Westmoreland, Cumberland ? 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 8. 



Latitude 51 — 55. English type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagi'arian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to 250 yards, in North Wales. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 47. 



Native. Rupestral, &c. On the eastern side of England, 

 V. spicata has been reported to occur in Essex (Rev. S. 

 Palmer), which was probably an error ; also in Suffolk, 

 whence I have specimens from Miss Bell ; and about New- 

 market Heath, on the border of Cambridge, where it is said 

 to be now extinct. On the western side of England, it is 

 usually or always found in the larger form of V. hybrida ; 

 occurring on St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol, a habitat 

 which causes it to be refeiTed to two counties, Somerset 

 and Gloucester, in provinces 1 and 5 ; also in three or four 

 counties of North Wales; and in North Lancashire and 

 Westmoreland, in the Lake province. The counties of 

 Cornwall (With. — B.G.), Glamorgan (Swansea Guide — 

 Dilwyn), and Cumberland (Hutchinson — B. G.), have 

 likewise been reported, but require verification. Mr. J. E. 

 Bowman gives it an elevation of 700 or 800 feet on Craig 

 Breiddin, in Montgomeryshire, which may likely wairant 

 the assignment of it to the superagrarian zone, and to a 

 mean annual temperature of 46. V. officinalis was doubt- 

 less mistaken for V. spicata in Orkney ; as it has also been 

 so mistaken several times elsewhere. 



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