250 55. LAMIACE^. 



or Western-Inverness. Gordon marks it as being very 

 common in Moray. " Ajuga alpina" has been said to grow 

 in Caernarvon, Derby, Durham, Westmoreland!?), Forfar, 

 Aberdeen. Babiugton's Manual limits it to England and 

 Ireland, excluding Scotland ; but apparently he had seen 

 no specimens from either country. The only examples of 

 so-called A. alpina which I have seen, were the two spe- 

 cimens reported by the late Professor Graham (Excurs. 

 1831) and referred to in Gardiner's Flora of Forfarshire. 

 I was with Dr. Graham when he picked those specimens, 

 and one of them is now in my herbarium, undistinguishable 

 from A. reptans, according to my own eyes. 



823. Ajuga PYRAMiBALis, I'in'n.'^^c/'r/'/^,^^ 



Area [1 * * ^^ * ^ 7] ******* 15 16 17 18. 



South limit in Argyle, West-Invemess, Moray. 



North limit in Orkney, Hebrides, Caithness, Ross. 



Estimate of provinces 4. Estimate of counties 7. 



Latitude 56 — 60. Highland (?) type of distribution. 



A. A., regions. Superagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to ? (Nearly to the coast level ?) 



Ascends to ? (Probably 500 yards and upwards.) 



Range of mean annual temperature say 45 — 40. 



Native. Pascual ? A very scarce plant which few Bri- 

 tish botanists have seen in its indigenous habitats. The 

 seven counties above mentioned, with those of Somerset 

 and Caernarvon which were probably en'ors, have been re- 

 ported for it. The present species has a far more general 

 distribution in Scandinavia, than our own common and very 

 general A. reptans. Whence these differences between 

 them in Britain and Scandinavia ? Being unaware of the 

 altitudes at which A. pyramidalis has been found in Scot- 



