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unacquainted with S. Babingtonii, except by the notice of 

 it in the ' Manual of British Botany.' 



Stellaria scapigera, Willd. 



Area * [15 16]. 



Incognit. " By the sides of rivulets on the Scottish 

 mountains. In Perthshire, and Loch Nevis, Inverness- 

 shire.— Mr. G. Don:' (English Flora). 



189. Stellaria uliginosa, Murr. 



Area, general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 82. 



Latitude 50—61. British type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Inferagrarian — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 1050 or 1100 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 36. 



Native. Paludal and Uliginal. Almost universal in 

 Britain, about ditches and streamlets; even flowering in 

 the rills of water, with a summer temperature of 38 or 39, 

 at 1000 yards of elevation on the Grampians. It is curious 

 that Linnaeus should have considered this as a variety of 

 S. graminea. When growing on dry ground, as it may oc- 

 casionally be seen upon banks of earth thrown up in clear- 

 ing out water-courses, this species forms a sort of tuft, 

 with very numerous branches ; and it then assumes very 

 much the seinblance of a Paronychia. 



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