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absent from the German ones. The Flora of the North British 
Hills and Moors differs in spite of its numerous resemblances 
from that of Germany, in that many species grow on a far highei 
altitude than in that country, which is probably owing to our damp 
rainy climate and the absence of heavy long enduring snow falls. 
The Flora of our coasts is naturally far more interesting and 
extensive than that of Germany, for whilst our shores are very 
varied in their many natural aspects, those of Germany are 
limited for the most part to the flat sandy beach of the North 
Sea. Apparently the only plants of interest on that beach which 
are absent from England are Lina via odor a and possibly one or 
two more. 
The following are some of the plants found in England and 
not in Germany, with special reference to those growing in the 
New Forest:— Tlialictrum minus , Anemone nemorosa, Helleborus 
viridis, Aquilegia vulgaris, Corydalis ciaviculata , Hippocrepis 
comosa, Vicia Orobns , Vicia Lathy roides, Lathyrus montan us , 
Sanicala europea, Eryngium campestre, Biipleurum falcatum y 
Peucedanum palustre , Letlcojum aestivnm, Colchicum autumnale. 
All these grow in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth. 
List of some of the flowers found in Germany but not in 
England: — Anemone ranunculoides , Ranunculus lanuginosus , 
Nigella, Aconitum Lycoctanum, Aconitum Cammarum, Corydalis 
cava , Genista germanica, Trifolium montanum , Coronilla varia, 
Vicia cassubica, Vicia tenuifolia , Lathyrus vermis, Lathyrus 
heterophylliis, Biipleurum longifolium, Seseli , Chaerophyllum 
aromaticum, Peucedanum Cervaria, Laserpitium, lumpij 
bulbiferum, Lilitim Martagon, Anthericum Liliago, Anthencum 
ramosum. 
The list, of course, might be extended, but these few names 
will interest our members and may suggest a further comparison. 
Generally speaking Herr Drude, in his comparison of the Floras 
of Britain and Central Europe, remarks that although in some 
respects they are closely allied, in others they differ considerably. 
Numerous slightly differentiated local forms are endemic in Eng¬ 
land and many common species constantly polvmorphic in their 
German stations appear to him to look very different in their 
English stations, and therefore to represent local endemism. Again 
as regards floristic distribution the same species are more 
uniformly distributed at lower altitudes over the whole country 
than is the case in Germany. It is not onlv indigenous spec : es 
which show this, but introduced trees like Araucaria imbricata and 
Acer Pseudoplatanus , which grow as well in the north of the 
British Islands as in the south. Hence Britain furnishes instances 
of vegetational limits determined by developmental rather than 
by climatical or ecological conditions. 
