276 MR. G. CLARIEGE DRUCE ON 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 6. 
Fig. 1. Zcomum salicifolium, lateral spike, in fruit. Nat. size. 
2. Flower of the same ; the calyx in part removed to expose the narrow 
half of the tube of the corolla. 
3. Jcomum lineare, Nat. size. 
4. Flower of the same, 
5. Leomum subacaule, Nat. size. 
6. Flower of the same. 
7. Plectranthus insolitus, flower. 
8. Corolla of the same, 
Note on the Irish Carex rhynchophysa. 
By G. CLaridge Druce, M.A., F.LS. 
[Read 2nd March, 1899.] 
In the “Journal of Botany for 1893, on p. 20, an editorial note 
"was inserted to the effect that Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger “ had been 
fortunate enough to add this well-marked species to our British 
Flora,” On pp. 33-35 of the same journal a description of the 
plant and an account of its discovery is communicated by the 
finder, Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger. A figure of it with a rather 
featureless drawing of the perigynium is supplied by Mr. Arthur 
Bennett, who, Mr. Praeger states, *has now submitted the 
Sedge to the most rigid examination, and though hesitating at 
first to add a new plant to the British flora on the strength of a 
single specimen without the clearest proof, is now convinced of 
its identity with Carew rhynchophysa.” 
It was discovered in a ten-foot drain with a bottom of deep 
soft mud and soft peaty sides, which communieated with Mullagh- 
more Lough in the central part of Armagh, growing in the 
neighbourhood of Cicuta virosa and Castalia speciosa. Only one 
patch, several feet in diameter, was noticed, but this was ** imme- 
diately distinguished from the groves of Carex rostrata which 
grew around by its taller growth and more glaucous leaves.” 
The distribution of the true Carex rhynchophysa is distinctly 
northern and eastern. In Finland, as Mr. Praeger points out, 
it occurs in ten provinces, where it is found on the river- and 
lake-shores in deep bogs. It is also found in Lapland, Norway, 
Sweden, Russia, Silesia, Transsylvania, Siberia, and Dahuria. 
