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same as of Lsestadius I am unable to say. They are about 1 8 

 inches high. Male spikelet solitary ; female 2 or 3, appressed 

 to the stem, short, fairly stout, with very dark, blunt glumes. 

 Dr. Buchanan White's alleged var. epigeios from Methven was 

 placed under Goodenowii (C. vulgaris y elatior, Lang, forma 

 angustifolid] by Kiikenthal, and certainly cannot stand under 

 aquatilis. 



C. elytroides, Fr. Kiikenthal does not accept the Anglesey plant 

 which has been so called. He remarked on my two sheets 

 which, by the way, are fertile " Carex elytroides, Fr., ex orig. 

 longe aliena, nempe hybrida Carex gracilis x vulgaris. Haec 

 est nil nisi forma elatior C. vulgaris." 



C. Goodenowii, Gray, var. strictiformis, Kiik. I was glad to see 

 this fine plant (Nos. 1936, 2378) at length decisively named. 

 Mr. Shoolbred and I discovered it in a peaty ditch within fifty 

 yards of C. chordorhiza, which we met with a few minutes later 

 in its first British station. When growing it has quite the 

 appearance of a distinct species, being considerably more robust, 

 and having stouter spikelets than any other of our numerous 

 Goodenowii forms known to me. Kiikenthal at first confidently 

 named it Goodenowii x gracilis; but it is quite fertile, and gracilis 

 is unknown in the north of Scotland. In 1901 he wrote that 

 it came nearest to C. Gaudichaudiana, Kunth, from Australia 

 and New Zealand. Rev. E. F. Linton's unpublished C. 

 Goodenowii, var. subacuta, from Co. Westmeath, seems to be 

 closely allied. Probably a subspecies, rather than an ordinary 

 variety. 



Var. subccespitosa, Kiik. Peaty marsh-dyke near Rosslare, 

 Co. Wexford, June 1897 (No. 1969); forming dense hassocks up 

 to 1 8 inches high, both caespitose and stoloniferous. Kiikenthal 

 remarked that it had much the aspect of a cespitosa x rulgaris. 

 The spikelets are crowded in a head one to two inches long, 

 subtended by a bract often twice its length. Var. jwicella is 

 sometimes densely tufted, but has its leaves more or less 

 involute-filiform ; whereas in var. subcaspitosa they are flat, and 

 occasionally 15 inches long. 



C. panicea, L., var. intermedia (Miegeville). Still known as British 

 only from a wet heath about a mile east of Fort William 

 (No. 431), where I found it on June 23, 1888. It remained 

 constant under cultivation, and exactly matches Bordere's 

 specimens at Kew, thus named, from the Pyrenees. Kiiken- 

 thal's comment in 1898 was as follows: "Carex intermedia, 

 Mieg., est mihi ignota (K. Richter ad C. vulgarem ducit !). 

 Haec forma pulchra reducta Caricis panicese." The station, 

 only 100 feet above sea-level, cannot account for its divergence 



