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used the name in a restricted sense for the small-fruited 

 plant, Kukenthal includes C. Oederi, var. oedocarpa, Anders. 

 ( =flava, var. minor, Towns.) and var. argillacea, Towns., 

 an arrangement more closely approximating to the last 

 edition of the " Lond. Cat." To my eyes C. flava, var. 

 minor, Towns., seems to be more closely related to either 

 of the other two species than to the small-fruited plant, 

 which I name C. Oederi, Retz, and that was Townsend's idea ; 

 but of course Kukenthal speaks with far greater authority 

 and knowledge than I possess. He gives as a " forma " C. 

 subglobosa, Mielich., Lough Neagh (Druce), 509. 



C. extensa, Good. : a new variety of this to our British 

 Lists is described, viz. Ecklonii, Kiik., from Port Patrick, 

 Wigtown (C. Bailey). But the older name for it appears 

 to be C. extensa, Good., var. latifolia, Boeck., in " Linnaea," 

 Ixi. (1877), 2 89- C. pilulifera, L., the var. Leesii, Ridley, 

 is reduced to forma longibracteata, Lange. 



C. glauca, Scop., is used instead of C. flacca, Schreb., 

 but I think under the idea that C. glauca was established 

 in Murray's " Stirp. Getting." (1770), p. 76. There it is, 

 I believe, only an unnamed description ; the earliest name is 

 Schreber's. Bennett's var. acuminata receives no notice ; 

 and our other varieties are reduced to forms. 



C. vaginata, Tausch, in " Flora," iv. (1821) 557. For 

 this, the oldest name, Kukenthal, in defiance of the Vienna 

 inconsistent Rules (which demand the use of the oldest 

 specific, but not the oldest varietal name), writes C. sparsi- 

 flora, " Steud. Nom.," 2nd ed. (1841), 296, because it was 

 C. panicea, var. sparsiflora, Wahl., " Fl. Lapp." (1812), 

 236. The var. borealis (Anders.) is treated as synonymous 

 with the type, as is the var. intermedia of C. panicea ; while 

 tumidula and conferta are reduced to forms. The var. 

 planifolia, Kohts, is put as synonymous with C. magellanica, 

 not as a var. of C. limosa, as in my List. The Ben 

 Heasgarnich locality is not given under C. atrofusca, 

 Schkuhr. The name C. alpina, Sw., is retained (following 

 Ascherson and Graebner) ; the identity of C. Halleri, Gunn., 

 with it is queried : our three British Lists use C. Halleri. 

 C. Buxbaumii, Wahl. (also following A. and G.), is used 

 despite the older C. polygatna, Schkuhr, which is cited 



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