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assigned (in aquosis et ad margines fossarum) is quite unusual 

 for this normally dry-soil species. 



C. muricata, Linn. Herb. ! (Paircei, F. Schultz). The description in 

 "Spec. Plant." (capsulis acutis divergentibus spinosis) confirms 

 the evidence of the specimen ; its patent fruit being one of the 

 obvious characters which mark off Paircei from contigua. Mr. 

 W. A. Shoolbred and I found what we thought was a new 

 British sedge on sandy hedge-banks near Pyle, 41, Glamorgan, 

 so far back as 1902 ; Kiikenthal at first named it Leersii, but 

 subsequently identified it in herb. C. E. Salmon as Paircei. 

 Last year Rev. E. F. Linton collected this species in fine 

 condition at Edmondsham, 9, Dorset. 



C. Leersii, F. Schultz. Clearly very near the last, though authentic 

 specimens at Brit. Mus. are considerably more robust, and have 

 larger fruit, in addition to the longer and more interrupted 

 spikes. Our British plants are usually weaker, but cannot be 

 separated by any definite character. If treated as a mere 

 variety, it should apparently be called C. muricata, L., var. 

 pseudo-divulsa, Syme. Mr. Druce's C. muricata x remota has, 

 I believe, contigua as one parent ; I have hitherto seen no 

 other British examples, though Focke calls it " perhaps the 

 most frequent Carex-hybrid.." 



C. canescens, L. Mr. Druce has shown good grounds for retaining 

 this name, instead of C. curta, Good. 



C. cespitosa, L. Mr. Beeby some years ago informed me that he 

 had given up the Shetland plant so determined by Dr. Lange 

 (I saw his herbarium specimen at a Linnean Society Meeting, 

 and could not make out how it differed from C. Goodenowif) ; 

 but Mr. Bennett is satisfied that the Wensleydale cespitosa is 

 correct. 



C. gracilis, Curt., var. sphccrocarpa, Kiik. My Bignor, 13, West 

 Sussex, plant (No. 2610) has brown, roundish fruit. I have 

 not seen a description of this variety. 



C. aquatilis, Wahl., forma angustata, Kiik. Speyside below 

 Kingussie, 96, East Inverness (Nos. 2102-3). I n 1898 

 Kiikenthal wrote that my specimens were analogous to C. 

 gracilis, var. personata, Fr. Spikelets slender ; foliage narrow. 

 I have the same thing, in a reduced form, from 2800 feet in 

 Corrie Kander, 92, South Aberdeen (No. 2983). 



Var. sphagnophila, Fr. Is an earlier name for the var. 

 minor, Boott, so common on the Clova Mountains. 



Var. epigeios. Kiikenthal in 1898 named my specimens 

 from the tableland above Glen Callater, coming from Canlochan, 

 at over 3000 feet, as var. epigeios, Anders. ; whether that is the 



