[B49]

Watson's Cybele Britan. p. 32 vol I.

Notwithstanding local exceptions "the general rule will be found true, that a species which rises higher than another on one range of mountains will usually be found higher on other ranges; & the commoner the species, the more exact is this rule found to be."—

Vol I p 37. "The flora of all our mountains, above the limit of cultivation, has much closer affinity with that seen northwards of the British Isles, than it has with that of the Alps of middle Europe; it is, for example much more like the flora of Lapland, than of the flora of Switzerland."—

vol. 3. p. 37. The Eriocaulon septangulare is "anomalous in the Europæan Flora, & constitutes one of the few connecting links between the Botany of E. America & W. Britain, like the Neottia gemmipara & (if really indigenous) the Sisyrinchium anceps of Ireland.—