410 72. CONIFERS. 



small scattered examples at 800 and even 850 yards of ele- 

 vation, which might have been, and probably had been 

 planted there, either for experiment or for effect in the 

 landscape. But that the Pine has grown naturally on the 

 Grampians at an equal elevation, in former ages, is ren- 

 dered certain by the roots still remaining in the peat mos- 

 ses of the elevated table lands of Forfar and Aberdeen, at 

 800 yards and upM'ards. Mr. Winch says that the roots 

 and trunks of very large pines are still seen protruding from 

 the black peat at an elevation of nearly 1000 yards in the 

 north of England. I have seen a tree, apparently a native 

 one, with a stem of eight feet in girth, at 550 yards of ele- 

 vation in Aberdeenshire. The upper limit of the fir-woods 

 on the ascent of Loch-na-gar, in the same county, is at 

 about 650 yards, where the trees are two or three feet in 

 girth. It will be understood that the census, latitude, &c. 

 in the formula above, bear reference to the present distri- 

 bution or existence of Pinus sylvestris, in a truly indige- 

 nous condition, which is a greatly restricted one. Mr. 

 Woods states that the Pinus Pinaster propagates itself in 

 the Poole basin, in the Channel province. (See Phytolo- 

 gist, iii. 261.) 



1030. JuNiPERUS COMMUNIS, Linn. 



1030, b. JUNIPERUS NANA, Willd. ^ /^//J-.'/.O^. 



Area general. 



South limit in Somerset, Hants, Sussex, Kent. 

 North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 

 Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 70. 

 Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 

 A. A. regions. Inferagravian — Midarctic zones. 

 Descends to 100 yards, or lower, in Channel. 



