196 53. SCROPHULARIACEvE. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 700 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 40. 



Native. Agrestal, Pascual, &c. A common plant through- 

 out Britain. The range of altitude, &c. must be varied 

 according to the exclusion or inclusion of the V. humifusa 

 as a form of the present species. 



750, b. Veronica humifusa, Dicks. 



Area j^**^i^*7i(ej(fj(jll**.*15 16 17. 



South limit in Caernarvon, Denbigh ? 



North limit in Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of counties 15. 



Latitude 53 — 59. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region, Inferarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 800 yards, or lower, in East Highlands. 



Ascends to 1250 yards, in same pro^dnce. 



Range of mean annual temperature 37 — 33. 



Native. Uliginal. Most authors holding this to be only 

 a mountain form or variety of V. serpyllifolia, its name is 

 omitted from many local lists of species, which may cause 

 it to appear less frequent, and less general to the moun- 

 tainous counties, than the facts might warrant if they were 

 more fully ascertained. I have collected it in the counties 

 of Perth, Forfar, Aberdeen, Moray, and West-Invemess ; 

 and may probably enough have seen it in other counties 

 also. Besides these, my compiled notes include Caer- 

 narvon, Denbigh, Northumberland and Sutherland. The 

 late Mr. J. E. Bowman is my authority for Denbighshire ; 

 and he gives the altitude of 1500 feet, which is lower than 

 I have made any note of seeing it, even in the Highlands. 

 The variety, if such it be, is persistent in a garden, during 



