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given an account of the gemme at the tips of the lower 
leaves, with a drawing of some which had begun to vegetate, 
which confirms, while it extends, my own observations on 
the same subject; but he does not notice the swelling of the 
base of the stem, and the gradual formation of the hyberna- 
eulum, from which I conclude that Malaxis Loeselii resembles 
lt in this respect, though no intimation of the fact appears in 
the Engl, FL. I cannot agree with Professor Henslow in 
thinking M. paludosa a parasitical plant, whatever may be 
the case with respect to M. Loeselii. I have seen paludosa 
growing in places where peat had been dug but a few 
months before, and consequently almost bare; and in that 
situation its parasitical habit, if it existed, would have been 
very obvious. 
I cultivated this plant for two years, but it afterwards 
disappeared. A cluster of fourteen plants in flower was 
removed into a garden pot and well supplied with water. 
The bases of the stems surrounded by the leaves, in a decayed 
‘State, were all that remained in the spring following. The 
hybernacula were then lying loosely on the surface. After 
immersing them in the soil, they began to vegetate, but only 
two or three arrived at maturity. These, in the autumn 
following, formed the hybernaculum nearly an inch above the 
base of the stem, and after the leaves and the upper parts - 
.. had decayed they remained supported by the stalk below, for 
Some time longer. Absence from home prevented further 
observation. 
5. Carex capillaris. Scotland, July 23, 1827. Moist 
declivities on the mountains. Root cespitose. Stem nearly or 
Quite round, smooth. Leaves with concave sides, recurved, 
smooth, ribbed, shorter than the stem. Bracteas with rather 
long sheaths, the lowest sheath often enclosing the rest, 
appearing then, as a common sheath for 3 or 4 catkins, which 
are placed on long pendulous, roughish, capillary stalks. 
Barren catkin on a shorter stalk than the rest. Scales of the 
fertile catkin lax, ovate-lanceolate, membranous and white 
