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siderably below eight hundred yards, and 
nearly on the same level. 
9. Species found above the Erice, but 
not exceeding Calluna vulgaris, which fails 
at about nine hundfed and fifty yards, as 
an average for latitude 57°, or from seven 
hundred and fifty yards to one thousand 
and fifty yards in different situations. 
10. Species exceeding the Heather, but 
not passing Vaccinium Vitis-Idea, which 
probably attains twelve hundred yards, or 
upwards, in favourable situations. 
pecies exceeding the Vitis Idea, 
but not seen above Vaccinium Myrtillus, 
which fails at twelve hundred and fifty to 
fourteen hundred yards. 
12. Species exceeding Vaccinium Myr- 
üllus (Salir herbacea is the only one). 
The probable climate of each of these 
stages may be estimated from the preced- 
ing remarks. In the following list the 
Stages are indicated by the numerical 
figuresinthe column succeeding the names; 
and the country in which the North limit 
of each species is supposed to be found, is 
named in the second column, in the order 
or series of Spitzbergen, Port Bowen, 
Greenland, 72»— 76? (East coast, Sabine's 
Collection, in Linn. Trans.), Greenland, 
71° (West coast, Scoresby's Plants, in 
Wern. Mem.) N. W. America, 67°—71° 
(Botany of Capt. Beecheys Vo oyage), 
Whale Fish Islands, Fox Channel, Green- 
land (Giesecké), Iceland, Finmark, Nord- 
land, Swedish Lapland, Faroe, Norway, 
Sweden, Baltic, (Retz, Prodromus Flore 
Scandinavie), Berlin, Holland, Belgium 
(Lejeune et Courtois, Flora Belgica, in- 
— Germany, (Roth, vol. 1.) and 
Genista Anglica ..... 7 . Baltic 
Cytisus scoparius .... 7.Sweden 
Ononis arvensis...... 4.Sweden 
spinosa ...... 3. Sweden 
Prunus spinosa...... 5.Sweden 
Coram... 2. Sweden 
TUBE. 1... 6. Finmark 
Rubus Ideus...... .. 7.Finmark 
- fruticosus, &c. . 6. Norway 
Potentilla fruticosa ... 2.Sweden 
Rosa arvensis ....... 3. Baltic 
spinosissuma.... 7.Sweden 
canina, §c...... 7.Nordland 
Crategus Oxyacantha. 5.Norway 
Cotoneaster vulgaris.. 9.Norway 
Pyrus Malus ........ 3. Norway 
communis ..... 3.Sweden 
terminalis..... 2. Baltic 
Aria, &c. ..... 4. Norway 
Aucuparia .... 9.N. Cape 
Ribes rubrum ....... 2. Finmark 
petreum....... 5.8. Lapland 
—-—- nigrum. ....... 2.8. Lapland 
- alpinum ....... 3. Nordland 
Hedera Heliz ....... 4.Sweden 
Cornus sanguinea .... 3.Sweden 
Sambucus nigra ..... 5. Norway 
Lonicera Periclymemum? . Norway 
Viburnum Lantana .. 3. Belgium 
- Opulus.... 4.Norway 
Viscum album ....... 2. Norway 
Vaccinium Myrtillus .11.Lapland 
uligtnosum.11.Greenl*-, 72-76 
Vitis Idea.10.NW.Am.67-71 
Ozycoccos . 8. NW.Am.67—71 
Arbutus alpina ...... 10.NW.Am.67-71 
- Uva Ursi.... 8.Fox Channel 
Andromeda polifolia.. 3.NW.Am.67-71 
Tica vagans........ l.France 
Ghara 1. France i 
* lunar 8. Norway L 
== CIRETER ....... 8. Faroe 3 
Menziesia cerulea ... ?.Greenland E 
Calluna vulgaris .. ... 9. Greenland : 
Azalea procumbens . . .10. Whale-fishIsles : 
Ligustrum vulgare ... 9.Sweden 
Fraxinus excelsior... 6. Norway 
