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know so much of the plant as the colour of its flowers. 

 Mr. Andrews, to whom I applied for infonnation thereon, 

 \vi-ites thus : " I examined particularly on Ben Bulben, for 

 Dryas depressa, and also in Clare. I was looking them 

 over last night, with reference to Mr. Babington's remarks 

 in the tenth volume of the Annals, and I really am puzzled 

 as to the grounds of distinction which he has drawn." It 

 is to be feared that the ' Diyas depressa ' will only descend 

 and be known as a name in books, without anything con- 

 stant in nature to answer to the name. 



/X/^'/.^// 3-21. Geum urbanum, Linn. 



321,b. Geum intermedium, Ehrh.? ^ yy/-///./, W^. 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 4^ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Ross-shire, Aberdeenshire, Argjdeshire. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 75. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 150 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 47. 



Native. Septal and Sylvestral. Abundantly distributed 

 through England ; apparently becoming scaixe towards the 

 Higliland pro^dnces and northeni coasts of Scotland. It 

 is mai-ked " frequent " in the Floras of Aberdeen and 

 Moray ; but occurs not in my lists of plants observed in 

 the higher valleys of the Gram]3ians, nor in those for the 

 north of Caithness and Sutherland ; while fi-om the North 

 Isles it would seem to be quite absent. 



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