374 • -25. ONAGRACE.E. 



374. Epilobium alpinum, Linn. 



Area ****** 7 [8 * 10] 11 [12] * * 1516 17. 



South limit in Caernarvonshire and Durham. 



North limit in Sutherland and Ross-shire. 



Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of counties 12. 



Latitude 53 — 59. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region. Jnferarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 450 or 500 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Ascends to 1300 yards, in the same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 41 — 34. 



Native. Uliginal. Rather plentiful on the Highland 

 mountains ; very local in England. Dr. Dickie says that 

 it formerly occurred on the banks of the Dee, near Aber- 

 deen, almost down to the level of the sea ; doubtless 

 brought thither during floods. 



374,b. Epilobium alsinifolium, Vill. ^ M^fi-A-'^^} 



Area ****** 7 * * 10 11 12 13 * 15 16 17. 



South limit in Caernarvonshire and Yorkshire. 



North limit in Sutherland, West Inverness, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 8. Estimate of counties 15. 



Latitude 50 — 59. Highland type of distribution. 



A. A. regions. Superagrarian — Midarctic zones. 



Descends to 200 yards, or even lower, in North Wales. 



Ascends to 950 or 1000 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 45 — 37. 



Native. Uliginal. Possibly this may be only a more 

 luxuriant form of E. alpinum, to which several botanists 

 have reduced it ; and the two do so gradually approximate 



