438 73. ORCHIDACE.E. 



now be correctly said to grow in more than one single pro- 

 vince and three counties ; although there would seem no 

 grounds for distrusting the records of its fonner occurrence 

 in Kent and Suffolk. The Rev. M. J. Berkeley finds it at 

 Whittlesea Mere, which is in the county of Huntingdon ; 

 and authorities for the other counties may be seen in the 

 Botanist's Guides. 



1065. Cypripebium Calceolus, Linn.^^^i!^-/// y ^ 



Area [*. * * .^ 5 ^ * * *] 10 11 12. 



South limit in York. 



North limit in Durham ? North Lancashire ? 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 3. 



Latitude 54 — 55. Local (Scot.) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Superagi-arian zone ? 



Descends to .? (100 yards ?) 



Ascends to ? (fonnerly to 200 or 300 yards ?) 



Range of mean annual temperature, say 47 — 46. 



Native. Sylvestral. Gradually becoming extinct, or 

 extirpated, in Britain. Mr. G. S. Gibson (Phytologist, ii. 

 373) says that a wild specimen was obtained in a woody 

 glen, three miles from Helmsley, in Yorkshire, in 1844 ; 

 and Mr. Tatham kindly furnished my herbarium with a 

 garden-grown specimen, the root of which had originally 

 been brought from Hesletine Gill, about nine miles above 

 Settle, in the same county. Forty years ago (1797) it was 

 to be found in the county of Durham, according to Winch. 

 In Jopling's Sketch of Fumess and Carlmell, the Cypripe- 

 dium is stated to have been found in the north-west of 

 High Fumess ; but whether still in existence there, is not 

 clear. Northumberland and Gloucestershire have also 

 been recorded to produce it ; but it has been long extinct, 

 if ever existent, in those counties. 



