CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE CYPERACE&-CARICOIDEAL 47 



a fairly complete synonymy is given, and brief details of 

 distribution. A clavis is given for each section. The 

 figures and details are good, and at last we have under the 

 covers of a single work a description of the Sedges of the 

 world ; a monument to the painstaking work and clear 

 judgment of the author. The nomenclature of the species 

 follows the Vienna Actes, and as a rule is in accord with 

 that of the "British Plant List." There are a few exceptions 

 which we may note in passing, and the novelties to our 

 published Floras may also be mentioned. 



The allied genus Kobresia is spelt Cobresia. The founder 

 Willdenow spelt it with a K, and this is universally followed 

 by British writers. Persoon (" Syn." ii. (1807) 534) altered 

 it to Cobresia because it was named in honour of Pauli de 

 Cobres. This spelling is used by Ascherson and Graebner, 

 and is allowed, but wrongly allowed, I hold, by the Vienna 

 Rules, which give great latitude for such changes, e.g. Bartsia 

 may be altered to Bartscliia because it was named after 

 Bartsch. In the first instance the change is very trouble- 

 some, because all the literature is practically indexed under 

 K, not C ; and we are glad to find that Dalla Torre, in the 

 " Genera Siphonogamorum," adheres to the original spelling ; 

 a practice which has so much to be said in its favour. Our 

 British species is called Cobresia caricina, Willd., since 

 Kiikenthal queries the identification of Carex bipartita, 

 Allioni, with it. But Ascherson and Graebner, Dalla Torre, 

 and Britton and Browne all agree in so identifying it, and 

 write Kobresia (or Cobresia} bipartita, Dalla Torre, as in my 

 List. 



Carex vesicaria, L. : under this is put var. alpigena, 

 Fries, from Ben More and Glen Lyon (Marshall). C. 

 Grahami is also put as a variety from Clova (Boyd) and 

 Ben More, Meall Ghaordie, Ben Cruichben (Marshall). 

 Under C. vesicaria he also puts, as a sub-species, C. saxatilis, 

 L. It is satisfactory to find the Linnean name is retained 

 for this plant, instead of the later C. pulla, Good. Var. 

 dichroa, Anders., is treated as a form of C. saxatilis. 



The name C. rostrata, Stokes, is used by Kiikenthal, but 

 surely wrongly, since there is no doubt that C. inflata, Huds., 

 has priority. Hudson may have quoted wrong synonyms, 



