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expectation of finding it northward to Shetland. At the 

 village of Castletown in Braemar, I saw plants of this 

 species potted and housed as " geraniums," with the care 

 which English cottagers bestow upon pelargoniums. The 

 G. purpureum or Raii is recorded from several counties of 

 England, ranging on the coast from Kent westward and '^ C^^o.^'"^-^ 

 ••/'^ northward to Merionethshire. The late Mr. J. E. Bowman 

 ^wrote of this variety, "I have seen so many intermediate 

 states between G. Robertianum and my friend Forster's G. 

 purpureum, on different parts of the coast, that I think the 

 latter can only be deemed a maritime variety." 



240. Geranium sanguineum, Linn. 

 240,b. Geranium lancastkiense. Mill. 



Area 1 * 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Cornwall, Somerset, Essex. 



North limit in Ross, Moray, Argyleshire. 



Estimate of provinces 16. Estimate of counties 40. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 \lf/'ltDl Ascends to 300 yards, in the East Highlands, ^/ro ^( ^ y'-^U< 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 44. 



Native. Rupestral and Littoral. In numerous loca- 

 lities, but still one of the least general among the plants 

 refeiTed to the British type. In the Flora Scotica, Mr. 

 Anderson is quoted as the authority for the occurrence of 

 this species on the banks of Loch Rannoch, which may be 

 about 1000 feet above the sea. I presume that it grows 

 to 200 or 300 yards in Yorkshire. By general consent G. 

 lancastriense is now refeiTed to G. saguineum, and yet it 

 is curious to see how different are their modes of growth 



