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303. ViciA HIRSUTA, Koch. 



Area, general. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Caithness and the Orkney Isles. 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 60. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 250 or 300 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 44. 



Native. Septal, &c. Having seen this species so far 

 north as the county of Caithness, I have ventured to rely 

 on the authority of Lowe's list, for its occurrence also in 

 Orkney, notwithstanding its absence from the lists of Shet- 

 land and Hebridean plants. Probably rare in the North 

 Highlands ; as it is not marked in the lists of species ob- 

 served in Ross and Sutherland. The Rev. G. Gordon in- 

 dicates it to be frequent in Moray ; and Dr. Dickie says 

 not unfrequent about Aberdeen. I observed it about Killiu 

 and Clova, and not elsewhere in the Highland valleys, 

 above 100 yards of altitude. 



^^■^'//.////O 304. ViCIA TETEASPEEMA, Koch. 



304,b. ViciA GRACILIS, Lois. 



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Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 * 13 * 15 * * [18]. 

 South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Kent. ^;^-*^ i-'^^r 

 North limit in Forfarshire and Lanarkshire. 

 Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 50. 

 Latitude 50 — 57. English type of distribution. 



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