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eluded only some half-dozen species of the extreme north 

 and north-west of Scotland, the original types of the ' Re- 

 marks ' vAere as follows : — 



1. Plants of the south-west of England. 



2. Plants of the south-east of England. 



3. Plants of the south of England, decreasing north- 



wards. 



4. Plants more generally distributed in Britain. 



5. Plants of Scotland or the north of England, decreas- 



ing southwards. 



6. Mountain plants of Scotland and England. 



According to Mr. Forbes, the distribution of our indige- 

 nous plants is such as to associate them into the five fol- 

 lowing groups, being those which he designates 'floras:' — 



1. Irish plants, not found in Britain. 



2. Plants of the south-west of England. 



3. Plants of the south-east of England. 



4. Mountain plants of Scotland and England. 



5. Plants more generally distributed in Britain. 



Thus far, these ' floras ' present a close similarity to the 

 ' types,' as originally and briefly set forth in the 'Remarks,' 

 and rejieatcd, somewhat more at length, in the preceding 

 pages of the present work, with some unimportant varia- 

 tions. The chief differences are seen in the addition of a 

 first and distinct ' flora ' for the few (falsely stated to be 

 " many ") species peculiar to Ireland, and which were not 

 included in the ' Remarks,' as that volume related only to 

 Britain proper. Besides this addition (a mistake in itself, 

 for the peculiar Irish plants mostly belong to the south- 

 west or Atlantic type of the ' Remarks,') there is also a 

 suppression of the English and Scottish types, which do 

 not harmonize with the hypothesis. 



