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404. RiBES KUBRUM, Linn. /^ ^^>^/^-/i-^5 ^• 



404,b. RiBES PETR^UM, " Wulf." 



404,c. RiBES SPICATUM, Kobs, 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 ^ * 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 * (18). 



South limit in Devon, Isle of Wight, Sussex. /J-j***^-^ 



North limit in Moray, Aberdeenshire, Argyleshire. 



Estimate of provinces 14. Estimate of counties 50. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Tnferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 200 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 50 — 45. 



Native. Sylvestral, &c. Apparently a true native of 

 Scotland and the north of England; and even in the south 

 of England, also, according to very good botanical 

 authorities. Thus, Dr. Bromfield writes, — " So common 

 an Isle of Wight shrub, that there is scarcely a patch or 

 copse of brushwood, however small, from which it is wholly 

 absent, and some of our large woods produce specimens 

 by hundreds." 



405. RiBiis ALPiNUM, Linn. 



Area * * ^ * 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 

 South limit in (Glamorgan ?), Warwick, Nottingham. 

 North limit in Edinburgh, Lanark, Renfrew shires. 

 Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 20. 

 Latitude 51 — 56. Scottish type of distribution. 

 Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 

 Descends to the coast level, in Wales. 



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