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It is found
wild in all 112 vice-counties of the British Isles.

What's a vice-county?

Mary


From

http://www.brc.ac.uk/brcMaps.shtm

Biological Records Centre

What is a vice-county?

The system of vice counties was decided upon by H.C. Watson in 1852,
who divided the country into units of roughly equal area for botanical
recording purposes. His system was later extended to Ireland by
Praeger.

Why use vice-counties?

Vice counties have been widely adopted by naturalists in preference to
the ever-changing administrative counties. The vice county boundaries
will not move!

It is very useful to us at BRC to have a note of the vice-county as
well as the grid reference with each record. With both, we are able,
using the computer, to check that grid references are not wildly
inaccurate, and to sort records into counties, which is useful when
providing information to county recorders, local records centres and
museums. So - whenever possible - please enter the vice-county, as well
as the grid reference, on your records.

L

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