88 1 RANDNCULACEiE. 



Ascends to 900 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 38. 



NatiTO. Agrestal or Viatical. Distributed as generally, 

 and almost as plentifiilly, as R. acris, in the agrarian re- 

 gion; partly, through the operations of mankind, which 

 adapt the groimd for its support, by working and manming. 

 As we ascend the moimtains, its frequency gi'eatly lessens ; 

 and it is rarely seen so high as 2000 feet; although on Ben 

 Lawers, it was observed in one spot supposed rather to ex- 

 ceed 900 yards. The uppermost locahtieo are usually by 

 the side of water, or in other spots to which sheep or cattle 

 resort. 



21. Ranunculus bulbosus, Linn. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 * (18). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Moray and Dumbartonshire (.''). /t^ /J^*///. / ^y^% 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagi-arian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 500 yai'ds, in the East Higlilands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 42. 



Native. Pascual. Abundant in England and the Sovith 

 of Scotland ; and said to be frequent so far north as Moray. 

 It would seem to be rare, if really wild, northwaid of the 

 Caledonian Canal. It has no place in the Flora of Shet- 

 land ; nor is it mentioned by Balfour and Babington, in 

 their list of Hebridean plants. In a manuscript Flora of 

 Orkney, for which I was indebted to Dr. Gillies, the name 

 occm-s, but only on the suspicious authority of Lowe's list, 

 in Bany's History of Orkney. I do not find the name in 



