272 56. BORAGINACE/E. 



North limit in Shetland, Hebrides, ? 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel. 



Ascends to 350 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 43. 



Native. Paludal, Uliginal. I have no authority to cite 

 for this species in Cornwall or Devon, beyond an indistinct 

 recollection of having seen it in both those counties myself. 

 At the other extremity of Britain, I am equally without 

 authority for it in Orkney, Sutherland, or Caithness. Pretty 

 frequent in the superagrarian zone in the Highland pro- 

 vinces, where I have never seen M. palustris, as before 

 intimated under the latter species. 



850. Myosotis alpestris, 5m. 



Area ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ =;^ ^ ^ n^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ lb. 



South limit in Perthshire. 



North limit in same county. 



Estimate of provinces 1. Estimate of counties 1. 



Latitude 56 — 57. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region. Midarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 1000 or 1050 yards, in East Highlands. 



Ascends to 1300 yards, in same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 37 — 34. 



Native. Rupestral. A very local plant, apparently li- 

 mited to the mountains between Lochs Tay and Rannoch, 

 in the north of Perthshire. By some botanists it is sup- 

 posed to be an alpine state or variety of M. sylvatica ; but 

 I cannot say that the cultivation of it for a few years in 

 my garden has much tended to convince me of the cor- 



