1. RANUNCULACE^. 99 



garden between Shieldag and Jeantown, in the west of 

 Ross-sliire. 



34. P^ONIA CORALLINA, Retz. 



Ai-ea 1 * [3]. 



South limit on Steep Holmes, Somerset. 



North limit on the same island. 



Estimate of provinces 1. Estimate of comities 1. 



Latitude between 51 — 52. Local type. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in its locahty. 



Ascends scarcely above it, probably. 



Mean annual temperatm-e about 50. 



Dema e n . Rupestral. Inhabits the rocky cliffs of Steep 

 Holmes, an islet of the Severn estuary ; and said to have 

 been abundant there formerly, though nearly eradicated in 

 1834, by " destnictive visitors " from the British Associa- 

 tion, meeting at Bristol. The New Botanist's-Guide states, 

 on the authority of Mr. Babington, that a single plant of it 

 was found in the centre of a large wood, near the ' Rocks,' 

 Bath. Mr. Hancock reports P. officinalis from " a thicket 

 of bushes, near Blaize Castle," north-west of Bristol. 



35. AcT^A SPICATA, Linn. 



t^rcJl] L ^"^^'^ * * [3] ****** 10 * 12 * * (15). 

 J 1^ South limit in Yorkshire. 



North limit in Westmoreland. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of comities 2. 



Latitude 53 — 55. Local type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Midagi-arian (.'') zone. 



