allied to C. saxatiiis, Linn. 217 



folium auriculatum culmum aequans, vel eo longius. Spica mascula 6—8 lin. longa, 

 lineam lata (rarius ad basin altera sessili abbreviata aucta), fcemineis contigua vel inter- 

 vallo 4 lin. ad 1^ poll, longo remota. Squamae nigi'o-ferrugineae, apice albidae, nervo 

 concolori, obtusas, arete imbricatse. Spicee foeminea 3-6 lin. longae, 2-3 lin. latae, 1 vel 2, 

 approximatae, vel intervallo 1-1^ poll, longo remotae, nigro-purpureae : suprema sessilis, 

 rotundata, saepe parva, pauciflora, rariiis apice flosculo masculo instructa : infima ovata, 

 plus minus pedunculata. Spica, e stylo exserto, stigmatibusque longis, quasi comosae. 

 Squamce ovatse, obtusiusculae, nigro-purpureae, nervo concolori, apice albidae. Perigy- 

 nium If lin. longum, ^ lin. latum, subglobosum ovatumve, rostratum, emarginatum, 

 enervium (nisi nervis 2 marginalibus), stipitatum, patens, atro-purpureum, basi palli- 

 dum, lucidum, squama paululum longius. Achenium immaturum. 



That C. pulla, Good., is the C. saxatiiis, Linn., is proved, I think, by the 

 original description of that species in the ' Flora Lapponica,' "fades eadem 

 et statura est quam 324" (C. atrata, Linn.) and " spicce foemineoe ovatoe,magnce" 

 applying to it rather than to C. rigida. Good. ; and it is confirmed by the Lap- 

 land specimen of C*aj:a^«7/* in the Linnean herbarium (the name and country 

 recorded in the hand-writing of Linnaeus) ; by one, so named by Solander, from 

 Lapland, in ' Herb. Banks.;' and by Gay (Ann. des Sc. Nat. xi. p. 189), who 

 alludes to a specimen of Solander's, so called, as seen by Hartman. 



It would be difficult to explain how Goodenough and Smith overlooked 

 the evidence of this fact, especially as the last, in ' Eng. Fl.' iv. 1 16, admits 

 that the C. saxatiiis, Linn., is "more allied" to C. pulla than to C. rigida, 

 Good. 



In the ' Flora Suecica' (1745) Linnseus gives the habitat, " in alpibus Lap- 

 ponicis ;" but the observations there introduced, especially, perhaps, '' sub in- 

 Jimd spied folium setaceum spied hrevius," would lead to the inference that he 

 then confounded C. rigida. Good., with it. In the 'Sp. Plant.' (1753), when 

 the specific name was first applied, the habitat is changed to " in Alpibus Eu- 

 ropve" which is too general for C. saxatiiis, Linn., and can alone apply to 

 C. rigida. Good., which consequently, since the time of Oeder ( Fl. Danica, 

 t. 159) (1764), has been generally received as the C. saxatiiis, Linn. 



Hartman appears to have first detected the error in 1 832, and he has been 

 followed by Koch (Syn. Fl. Germanise, 1837), who refers the C. saxatiiis of the 

 continental authors to C. rigida. Good. 



