allied to C. saxatilis, Linn. J 17 



folium auriculatum culmum aequans, vel eo longius. Spica mascula (I-S lin. loqga, 

 lineam lata (rarius ad basin alter;! sesuli abbreviate aucta), firmim-is oontigOl ?d inter- 

 vallo 4 lin. ad 1| poll, longo remota. Squama Qlgro-ferruginen, apiec albicl;r, ROTO 

 concolori, obtusre, arete imbricatie. Spica fa mi nea .i-G lin. longtB, - .5 lin. lata . I vi 1 2, 

 approximatae, vel intervallo 1-1,] polL longo remote, nigro-purpurec I mprema mirilb, 

 rotundata, saepe parva, pauciflora, rarius apice flosculo maaculo instruct! i [nfima <>vata. 

 plus minus pedunculata. Spica, e stylo exserto, stigmatibuaque longis, quasi ooi 

 Squama ovatae, obtusiuscula?, nigro-purpurea*, nervo concolori. apiec tlbids. /Vr;////- 

 nium If lin. longum, £ lin. latum, subgiobofluni oratamve, rostntam, emtrginatum, 

 enervium (nisi nervis 2 marginalibus), stipitatum, patens. tiro-pui'purwm, bad palli- 

 dum, lucidum, squama paululum longius. Achenium immaturum. 



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

 original description of that species in the 'Flora Lapponica.' "faciei eadem 

 et statura est quam 324" (C. atrata, Linn.) and " tpicmfa mmem ovatm, magna? 



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

 land specimen of C. saxatilis in the Linnean herbarium tin- name and country 

 recorded in the hand-writing of Linnaeus) j by one, so named by Sounder, 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 Ilartman. 



It would be difficult to explain how Goodenough and Smith overlooked 

 the evidence of this fact, especially as the last, in « Eng. PL' iv. I lo. admits 

 that the C. saxatilis, Linn., is " more allied" to C.pulla than to C rigid*, 



Good. 



In the 'Flora Suecica' (1745) Linnaeus gives the habitat, u in alpihus Lup- 

 ponicis" but the observations there introduced, especially, perhaps, " tub m- 

 Jimd spied folium setaceum spied brevius? would lead to the inference that he 

 then confounded C. rigida, Good., with it. In the SSp. Plant/ (1753), "hen 

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

 rope?? which is too general for C. saxatilis, Linn., and can alone apply to 

 C. rigida, Good., which consequently, since the time of Oeder ( FI.Dar 

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



Hartman appears to have first detected the error in 1832, and he has I, 

 followed by Koch (Syn. Fl. German**, 1837), who refers the ( saxatilis of the 

 continental authors to C. rigida, Good. 



