2 1 8 Dr. Boott on a species of Carex 



I had observed the fact of C.pulla, Good., being the true C.saxatilis, Linn., 

 by an examination of the Linnean and Banksian herbaria, and corrected the 

 error of Goodenough in Hooker's c Brit. Flora,' ed 4. 1838, without having 

 been aware of Hartman's observation, which I met with in the ' Ann. des Sc. 

 Nat.' vol. xi., published in 1839. 



T am informed by Mr. Robert Brown, that a single specimen of this species 

 was discovered in Scotland first by the Rev. Mr. Stuart of Luss, and sent to 

 Lightfoot, who declared it to be a Linnean species ; but to what species he 

 referred it, Mr. Stuart had forgotten, as he told Mr. Brown, who on August 11, 

 1703, showed Mr. Stuart, then at Killin, specimens which he had found that 

 day on Ben Teskerney, a mountain at the head of Glenlochai, near Loch Tay, 

 the station of Mr. Stuart's specimen. 



Don, in his ■ Herb. Brit.,' fasc. 8. 190, states that he found it on Ben Lomond 

 in 1789 (the year after the death of Lightfoot), on Ben Lawers in 1793, and on 

 Ben Nevis in 1 794 ; and that he sent it that year to Dickson, who acknowledged 

 it as an undeseribed plant. The specimen figured in the ■ Linn. Trans.' iii. t. 14. 

 (1795) ,s in 'Herb. Smith,' recorded there by him as the plant so figured; it 

 was received from Mr. J. Mackay as gathered on Ben Lawers in 1 7 93, and is 

 wuMwo other specimens from the same mountain gathered by Mackay in 



Linnaeus in the <Sp. Plant.' , 7 53, quotes with a query under C.sa.atilis, 

 M lc heh, Gen. 63. t. 32. f. 4," which Lightfoot refers, perhaps correctly, to 



apply to a saxata, or C. ri g i da , as the character « capsulis subkirsutis" would 



seeI^ Ch a a r terS ^T "^ G ***■* f ™ n * <«**«**> Uul, as will be 

 seen on a comparison between them, are the greater height of the first • the 

 more numerous and cylindrical snilcp. rtf r g ' 



flated and elongated hif ♦ P ' * ferr ^ mous Ct > lo »r; the more in- 

 -ales • and he '' "^ P"to*^ twice the length of the 



«*- . and the proportionately narrower leaves, which are short, than the 



^T^^ZtT by a11 T who > M ^ llotice the 



' Manual; p 342 „! *?*""* "*' B * h ^™> * is true, in his 

 P «, says the fnnt „ « s 1igktk, nerved- but he remarks, that the 



