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Ranunculus gramineus, Linn. 



Area [7]. 



Incognita. " Specimens brought from North Wales, by 

 Mr. Pritchard;" PFiYA. Arr. The locality has been re- 

 ported " in the neighbourhood of Llanroost," but botanists 

 have vainly sought the present species in that neighbour- 

 hood ; and as the authority seems so slight and insufficient, 

 we may conclude that R. Flammula was mistaken for R. 

 gramineus. I remember to have fallen into the same error 

 myself, during my first year of botanical study, and to have 

 imagined that I had found R. gi-amineus in Cheshire ; the 

 proximity of that county to Wales, and the use of Wither- 

 I ing's work, favoming the idea. 



'A^-^t^ ^-^/'.le. Ranunculus Lingua, Linn. 



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

 V. -^ i^'^- South limit in Dorset, Isle of Wight, Kent. 

 ''. / . J/^. North limit in Moray and Lanarkshire. 



Estimate of provinces 15. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British tyjje of distribution. 



Agi-arian region. Inferagi-arian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Channel. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 47. 



Native. Paludal. Pretty fi-equent, though by no means 

 general, in England and Scotland, from the Isle of Wight 

 northwards to Moray. There seems reason to suspect that 

 several of the recorded localities aie enoneous, tluough the 

 mistakmg of large examples of R. Flammula for the pre- 



