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rectness of this view. As with many other alpine plants, 

 cultivated for a while in my garden, the necessarily frequent 

 sprinklings with water in dry weather, together with the 

 shaded situations in which the plants require to be kept, 

 cause them to be so much attacked by slugs, that they 

 gradually become exhausted, and die away ; although, 

 while preserved from these pests, M. alpestris flourishes 

 well under such cultivation, and will attain a larger size 

 than is attained in its own Highland home. 



^/'/^ ^^^ /./^^^^ 851. Myosotis SYLVATiCA, Elirh. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 * 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. 



South limit in Devon, Sussex, Kent. 



North limit in Aberdeen ? Forfar. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 57 (58). Scottish (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so, in Peninsula. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral. Infrequent or often overlooked. 

 Dr. Murray includes it in the Northern Flora, without spe- 

 cifying any localities. It is omitted from those of Aberdeen 

 and Moray. Two habitats are mentioned in the Flora of 

 Forfarshire, on the respective authorities of Mr. A. Croall 

 and Mr. J. Cruickshank, being the only evidence which I 

 am prepared to cite for the existence of M. sylvatica in the 

 East Highland province. Frequent within sixteen miles 

 from Edinburgh, according to the Edinburgh Botanical 

 Society's Catalogue ; and therefore, probably, occurring 

 on the Highland side of the Forth, in the county of Fife. 

 Apparently too uncommon to be referred to the British 

 type; and yet scarce sufficiently boreal for the Scottish. 

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