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It is a plant of Russian Lapland (Lapponia murmanica). The 

 var. sphagnophila of aqnatilis is very near epigeios, Laest., differ- 

 ing by its pale (not dark) scales. 1 It may be noted that 

 Nylander, pt. ii. (1844), 23, describes epigeios, Laest., under that 

 name. 



C. aquatilis x salina ( = C. Grantii, mihi) was first found by 

 Mr. Grant, not Mr. Marshall, who gathered it some years after. 

 C. aqnatilis x Hudsonii ( = C. hibernica, mihi), C. Goodenovii, 

 Gay. Gay so spelt it, though it is not really the author's name. 

 No doubt Kiikenthal is right in making it juncea (Fr.), 1842, 

 and not juncella (Fr.), 1857. The var. strictijormis, Bailey, 

 Mem. Torrey Bot. Club, i. (1889), p. 74 (sub-vulgaris) is thus 

 characterised: "Tall and lax (i| to 2\ feet high), the leaves 

 long and narrow ; staminate spike longer peduncled ; pistillate 

 spike looser and often longer than in the species, the perigynia 

 never being so densely packed and usually being browner : 

 Canada, Maine south to Pennsylvania. The plant stands mid- 

 way between C. vulgaris and C. stricta. From the latter it is 

 distinguished by not growing in tufts, and by its narrower and 

 smoother leaves, and very obtuse black or brown and white- 

 nerved short scales." 



The " C. elytroides, Fries," of my paper was an error, the speci- 

 mens representing a peculiar form of Goodenovii. C. spiculosa, 

 Fr., has been by the Scandinavian authors considered a hybrid 

 probably C. Goodenovii x salina in one of its many forms. 

 My var. forma nova, Hebridcnse, mihi, I.e., I there give the 

 date of Nylander's part ii. as 1843, but I did not then possess 

 it; the true date is June 1844. There is no more difficult 

 European Carex than salina to limit. 

 C. rigida, var. infer-alpina, Laest. (1839). 



If Kiikenthal makes this the same as C. concolor, R. Brown, 

 in "Supp. App. Parry's Voyage " (1823), 218; then I think he 

 is wrong, no doubt it is a rigida form ; but infer-alpina is a 

 much more robust form. 

 Carex flava, L. 



It is curious that Bailey 2 has a var. rectirostrata, from Van- 

 couver's Island (Macoun). He observes C. viridula, Boott., 

 " 111.," t. 523, may possibly belong here, although the perigynia 

 are rather those of CEdcri. 



C. pilulifera, L. The identity of the vars. Leesii and longi- 

 bracteata has been denied; but Fernauld (I.e., 499-504) made 

 a careful comparison of all European and American forms, and 

 agrees they are the same. I have no doubt I have Lange's 

 plant. 



1 Fernald in " Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences," xxxvii. (1902), 497. 

 2 "Bot. Gazette" (1888), p. 84. 



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