416 35. SAXIFRAGACE^. 



Ascends to 1300 yards in the same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 47 — 34. 



Native. Rupestral. It is doubtful whether this spe- 

 cies would be more fitly referred to the Scottish or to the 

 Highland type. Its decided prevalence among the High- 

 land mountains suggests the latter ; while its occurrence 

 in several other spots, distant from hills of a mountainous 

 character, seems to bring it close upon the Scottish or lower 

 boreal type. Very local in the Peninsula, where it is said 

 to grow on the Mendip and Cheddar hills, in Somerset. 

 The habitat of Stour Head, in Dorset, is supposed to have 

 originated from cultivation in gardens. I am unaware of 

 the altitude of the Mendip and Cheddar stations, which 

 may possibly imply a mean temperature as high as 48. 

 It grows below 200 yards in Caernarvonshire. With S. 

 hypnoides, I include all the varieties, deemed species by 

 some botanists, known by the names of platypetala, hirta, 

 affinis, incurvifolia, denudata, elongella, laetevirens, and 

 pygmsea ; probably also, the decipiens and muscoides, of 

 English botanists, might be properly referred to S. hyp- 

 noides. 



Saxifraga muscoides, Wlflf. 



Area [12]. 



Incognit. Stated to have been found in Westmoreland. 

 Probably some variety of S. hypnoides vi^as thus named. 



432. Saxifraga cespitosa, Linn. 



Area -* .^u * * * * [7 8 * * * 12] * * 15 16. 



South and North limits in Banff and West Inverness. 



