112 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Carex binervis, Smith. 



Urejer's var. alpina is characterised " /3 alpina humilior, 

 spicis paullo brevioribus = C. vesicaria, ft alpina, Lyngb. ! in 

 herb. Hornm., Faerd ad Quivig ! Lyngbye." The 56 (p. 48 

 in January " Annals ") must be a misprint, as the number is 

 52, p. 474, in the original paper. Drejer remarks " Hujus 

 plantae modo 2 frustula mala conservata in herb, nostro deposuit 

 Lyngb., quae tamen satis luculenter probant plantam hujus 

 floras civem esse." 



Carex /lava, L. 



Anderson in " Cyper. Scand.," p. 25, 1849, describes his var. 

 pygmtza as " culmo unciali-digitali foliis multo breviori, spicis 

 parvis subrotundatis confertis." Ascherson and Graebner place 

 this under subsp. CEderi, Ehrh. 



C. alpina, Siv. 



There is a difficulty to face with this name. C. alpina, Schrk., 

 var. in " Fl." i, 299 (i"j8g)=C. sempervirens, Vill. (1787). 

 Then there is alpina, Hoppe = C. ferruginea, Scop. 



Carex Buxbaumii, Wahl. (1803). 



C. sitbnlata, Schum., 1801 ; C. polygama, Schkr. (1801); C. 



fusca, All., "Fl. Fed." ii. (1785), 269. There is a good 



specimen of Carex Bitxbaumii in Allioni's herbarium, seen by 



Mr. L. H. Bailey, who also saw Wahlenberg's type, and 



Schkuhr's ; so that the name according to priority is fusca. 1 



C. data, All. The difficulty is that there is no specimen 

 extant of Allioni's plant ; and correspondence with several 

 Italian botanists leaves it doubtful as to whether acuta or stricta 

 is his plant. 



Carex aquatilis, var. epigeios, Laest. 



Now in the "Journal of Botany," 1897, I notice two plants 

 so named, one the plant of Laestadius (1822), and the other of 

 Fries " Bot. Not." (1843), p. 105. That of 1822 was the plant 

 from Perthshire which Dr. Almquist named as such ; there I 

 express doubt of its being so. The other is a form of salina, 

 which Richter, following Nyman, makes the C. bicolor, Nyl." 

 Nylander 2 has no such name ; it is no doubt a clerical error 

 for discolor, which he has. I there say I have seen only three 

 specimens of this epigeios from Scotland ; i.e. in herb. Boswell, 

 Kew, and my own collections. Anderson keeps up Nylander's 

 species ; Almquist and Hjelt 3 make it a form of C. salina, 

 sub-sp. cuspidata ; and Fries puts it with the stirpes C. salina. 



1 C. subulata, Michaux (1803), will have to bear the name C. Collinsii, Nutt. 

 (1818). 



"Spec. Fl. Fenn." part iii. (1846) p. 12. 

 3 "Consp. Fl. Fenn." (1895), 281. 



