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of that sub-westerly province. A dubious habitat in the 

 province of Humber is mentioned in the New Botanist's 

 Guide. In Jopling's Sketch of Furness and Cartmell, 

 which includes a list of plants and their localities, on the 

 authority of Mr. Alton, this species is mentioned as being 

 found about Newby Bridge and Humphrey Head, in the 

 Lake province. 



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Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * 10 11. 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Durham, York, Denbigh. 



Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 35. 



Latitude 50 — 55. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 200 yards, more or less, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Pascual, &c. This is an example of an eastern 

 species running so far westward as almost to pass from the 

 Germanic into the English type. Still, the eastern ten- 

 dency is very apparent, by the absence of the species from 

 the provinces of the Lakes and Mersey, and by its restric- 

 tion to single counties each, Glamorgan and Denbigh, in 

 the provinces of North and South Wales, so far as our re- 

 cords go. It appears to be also absent from the western 

 half of the Peninsula ; occurring only in South Devon and 

 Somerset. Reported from all the seven counties of the 

 Severn province. The very obvious tendency of this spe- 

 cies to calcareous ground, like the others of its genus, may 

 go farther to account for its eastern distribution, than the 

 quality of the climate or the geographical position. 

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