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the one seen there. Nobody appears to have confirmed 

 the correctness of the Rev. W. Wood's locality of" Hawke- 

 stone," in Shropshire, which is the only one in the fifth 

 province, as far as my notes go ; but as the S. nutans grows 

 in Dovedale, on the Derbyshue side of a naiTow stream, 

 it may also grow on the Staffordshire side of the same 

 stream, which will give the species a " local habitation " 

 just within the county limit of the Severn province ; though, 

 in respect of physical geography, that part of Staffordshire 

 belongs of right to the Trent province. The provinces of 

 North Wales and Trent are not disputed. That of York- 

 shire requii-es con-oboration ; the single locality, "rocks 

 about Knaresborough," resting on old and not very safe au- 

 thority. " Salisbmy Crags," by Edinburgh, is the locality 

 given with specimens, which are labelled "S. italica," from 

 the Edinburgh Botanical Society ; but surely that species 

 must have been sown there, or it would have been earlier 

 discovered by some of the numerous good botanists, with 

 which that city is always supplied. The counties of Fife, 

 Forfar and Kincardine, have been several times reported 

 on ample authority. S. nutans seems best to associate with 

 the Anglo-Cambrian group of the Local type. Its head- 

 quarters are on the Umestones of North Wales and Derby- 

 shire, with several outposts or outlying localities, of which 

 the south-east coast of the East Highlands appears to be the 

 strongest. As to Orkney, it stands only on the faith of 

 Lowe's list, and cannot be received without additional au- 

 thority. The stations on the borders of the East Highlands, 

 and perhaps those among the hills of Derbyshire, caiTy its 

 range almost within the superagrarian zone. I have not so 

 indicated the zonal range, because those northern locaHties 

 seem quite restricted to the coast line, where the climate is 

 hardly that of the upper zone. 



