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mistake might have occuiTed, had a foreign specimen (of a 

 supposed British species) been sent in the manner of the 

 garden specimen ; that is, labelled as if the identical speci- 

 men had come from a native locality, although the writer of 

 the label intended only to indicate that the same species 

 grew in such locahty. Mr. Don's memorandum, as given 

 in Smith's herbarium, runs thus : " By little rills and among 

 rocks on the moimtains of Clova, Angus-shire, seldom 

 flowering.— G. Don, April 3, 1809." 



14. Ranunculus Ficaria, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 * 17 18. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent, 



North Umit in Shetland, Orkney, ? 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50 — 61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Inferarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 800 yards, in North Wales. 



Range of mean annual temperatm'e 52 — 41. 



Native. Septal. In aU hkelihood this is plentifully dis- 

 tributed throughout Britain, the higher hUls excepted ; and 

 yet I find no authority for its occmTence in the West High- 

 lands. But as it is stated to be common about Glasgow, 

 we may suppose that it occm's in Dumbartonshii'e. The 

 explanation why it is omitted from foiu* different Usts of 

 plants obsened in tracts of the West Highlands, by Pro- 

 fessor Balfour or myself, is doubtless to be found in the 

 circmnstance of those lists having been made, dming visits 

 to that pro^-ince, late in the summer, after the flowering 

 season of this early species. I have not met vAih it upon 



