56. boraginaceyE. 269 



Atlantic than to the English type. With the exception of 

 a few counties for which our floral lists are incomplete, this 

 plant is found in all the westerly counties of England and 

 the Lowlands, and plentifully in some of them. On the 

 other hand, it is quite unknown in several of the eastern 

 counties, which have been well explored botanically, and 

 is a rare plant in most of those in which it has been de- 

 tected. It is very rare, and perhaps confined to the single 

 county of Suffolk (Dr. Bromfield !), in the province of Oiise; 

 two localities are reported, and one of them on bad autho- 

 rity, for the province of Trent ; three or four for that of 

 Humber ; and one only for the Tyne. Perhaps the tem- 

 perature might be indicated as ranging down to 46. And 

 I think the species was observed in Devon at 1000 feet or 

 upwards. 



847. Myosotis palustris, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 * [17 18]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Forfar, Perth, .? 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 57 (58). British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Paludal. Three species, as they are now held 

 to be, were formerly included under this name by British 

 botanists. In consequence, doubts will arise in many cases 

 to which of those three species the name has been applied 

 by individual authors. According to my own opportunities 

 for observation, the true M. palustris, or that described as 



