

CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE CYPERACE&-CARICOIDEAL 51 



alpina has been changed to concolor (Br.), Kiik. ; but here 

 again in opposition to the Vienna Rules, which do not 

 insist on the permanence of the earliest varietal name that 

 is, the combination C. rigida, var. infer-alpina, Laest., dates 

 from 1839, C. rigida, var. concolor, only from 1909. The 

 name C. leporina, L., is wisely retained, but our varieties are 

 reduced to forms. 



C. lagopina, Wahl., is used instead of C. Lachenalit 

 Schkuhr. Of this he considers C. iielvola to be a hybrid 

 with canescens. He has seen it from Loch-na-gar (Syme) 

 1 2 12, (Druce) 22966, (Marshall) 2979, 2980, Clova 

 (Balfour), Ben Lawers (Druce) !, the three counties as 

 given in my List. C. stellulata, Good., is used, although 

 Britten contends that C. ecJiinata, Murr., is the proper name. 

 The var. grypos is retained, but no British station given. 



C. canescens, L., is correctly used by Kiikenthal for 

 C. curta, Good. ; the var. fallax, F. Kurtz, from the Scottish 

 Highlands (Druce), the var. tennis, Lang (first recorded by me 

 in this Journal, 1897, p. 128, from Glen More), and the var. 

 robustior, Blytt, Scotland (Marshall and Druce), are included, 

 as are the hybrid with stellata from Canlochan (Ewing), and 

 Ben Lawers (Druce), and super-canescens (my C- helvola, var.) 

 from Ben Lawers (Druce). C. contigua, Hoppe, is used instead 

 of C. niuricata, L., as in the " Lond. Cat. " ; but I followed 

 the British Museum Seed List in retaining the Linnaean 

 name, notwithstanding the specimen named C. niuricata in 

 the Linnaean herbarium, which is C. Pair&i: the description 

 and references appear to support the use of the Linnaean 

 name. I have put Leersii as a var. under muricata ; but 

 Kiikenthal calls C. Paired by the name C. ecJiinata, Murr. ; 

 under this he puts C. Leersii as a var. The variety has 

 been collected in England by Marshall, 3765, and the type 

 by myself in Cornwall. Surely if there is a case where 

 confusion would be created by the exchange of names this 

 is one. If cchinata, Murray, is so ambiguous it would be 

 well to drop it ; but this shall be treated more fully else- 

 where. 



C. divulsa, Good., the correct authority is Stokes in With. 

 "Nat. Arr.," of 1787. It will be observed that Kiikenthal 

 has not supported the erroneous suggestion that C. divulsa 



