316 The Scottish Naturalist. 



into three forms. It would be well if some Scotch botanist would examine his 

 specimens- in Edinburgh: as, doubtless, when he read his paper before the 

 Edinburgh Botanical Society he presented specimens. Is the Elgin plant 

 aquatilis ? I should be much obliged for specimens from that country. The 

 variety, or form, cuspidata Laestad occurs in Caithness, Hanbury sp. ! 



C. stricta, 90 Groall! 92 Miller / from Glen Gallater, named 

 by Almquist. C. acuta, 100 Ley, E.G. 1883. (9 Dick?) 



Mr, Grant tells me that there are specimens in Dick's herbarium at Thurso, 

 that he believes to be true acuta. It has been recently recorded from Iceland 

 by Stromfelt. Mr. Bailey of U. S. A., records it from Greenland, but I 

 do not know his authority ; it is not accepted by Dr. Lange. 



C. eufiava, 90, 91, 4, 6, 8 ! C. lepidocarpa, E.B. non Tausch, 90 '. 

 91. C. lepidocarpa Tausch, 9. C. CEderi, 91, 97, 98 Linton I 9 / 

 C. extensa var. minor 8 ! C. pallescens, 72 Fingland, 74. 5. 

 C. fulva, 4, 5 Druce, 9. C. binervis, 72, 74, 5, 7 Miller! C 

 distans, n confirmed Boswell, 1875. C. laevigata, 98 Bailey ! C. 

 panicea, 74, 100, 5, all B.C. 1883. C. vaginata, 94, 5 Druce, 9 ! 



I was disposed to name Mr. Grant's specimens C. pelia F. O. Lang (not 

 Lange, as Dr. Christ writes in his " List of European species of Carex "), but 

 Sir J. D. Hooker was inclined to name it vagmata. The subsequent receipt 

 from Dr. A. Blytt of beautiful specimens of C. pelia has led me to agree with 

 Sir J. D. Hooker. A specimen from Perth was named C. pelia by Dr. Christ, 

 "a dep. var. of panicea," but Dr. Blytt's specimens show that the true pelia 

 looks fairly distinct as a sub-species. 



C. limosa (seg.), 72 Fingland! 89 Sturrockf 4 ! 8 Miller! 

 C. rarinora. 



The Sutherland plants referred to this are limosa from 6 stations. " C. 

 limosa, Ben Loyal, 1833, W. H. Campbell ! " has the spikes shorter and darker 

 than usual, yet there is no real difference between them and others from 

 Badcall Moss, and from Ben Hope, 1S83 ! Certainly no specimens yet seen 

 from Sutherlandshire are C. slygia Fr. 



C. ustulata, 88 Brebner, ex Dr. F. B. White' C. sylvatica, 

 74, 88, 89, 91. C. pendula, 72. C. glauca, 74, 5, 8 Miller! 

 C. pnecox, 74, 2, 4, 8 Miller ! C. pilulifera, 74, 97, 5, 7 Grant ! 

 C. pilulifera var. Leesii, 92. Babingtons Manual, StJi Ed. 18S1. 

 <<C. pilulifera, Ben Mac, Suth. 6, 8, 33. W. H. Campbell!" 

 with only ordinary bracts. 



The fruit in this specimen is exactly as drawn in the "Journal of Botany," 

 1 88 1, plate 218, for the var. Leesii. The fruit of var. lon°i-bracteata Lange ! 

 from " Scania " comes half-way between the typical pilulifera and Leesii, 

 though Dr. Lange does not mention any peculiarity in the fruit of his variety. 

 (Haand. i. den Danske Fl. Ed. 3, 1864, p. 694.) 



