290 TWO NRW BRITISH PLANTS. 



ania, Jiesscr," Ledeb. in Fl. Eoss. iv. p. 260. Germany, Leipzig, 

 liichti'rl (Rchb. Fl. Exsicc. No. 205). Fiissen, BsbYSbvia., Andrael 

 Broniberg, Juicnitzl France, Vallee de Joux, Jiu'a, Ducomtmml 

 Switzerland, Seedorf, Berne, Serin (/e \ (Gram, Exsic. No. 56). 

 Sclioren, Thun, /('. J. Slnittleworthl Pra-brunet, Lautaret, at 

 2000 metres, Ozanonl (Billot, Exsic. No. 2556). Aiistro-Hungary, 

 Windisch-Garten, ScJmltzl (Herb. Norm. 167). Gfies, Tyrol, 

 Hntcr ! Moos-brunn, Vienna, Woloszczak \ (Flor. Exsic. Austro- 

 Hung. No. 1051). Glaneck, Salzburg, Hoppel (Cent. iii.). Botzen, 

 Hausinann ! Thrace, Banja, Frivaldsky [fide Grisebacli). 



Carex salina Walilenberg. — This is a peculiarly interesting 

 addition to our flora, on account of its distribution. The whole of 

 the section to which it belongs, the Maritwm of Nyman, are plants 

 very characteristic of Arctic sea-shores, descending a little further 

 south here and there along the coasts or on the mountains in the 

 colder parts of Europe and North America. C. salina Walil. is 

 perhaps the commonest of the section, and is a very variable plant, 

 on account of which it has received a very extensive synonymy. 

 Boott. (Illustr. Car. iv. 160) classified the varieties and divided 

 them into the tall typical form, and the variety minor, including all 

 the smaller forms with narrower and slenderer leaves and culms, 

 and fewer often sessile spikelets ; but he remarks that the two 

 vai'ieties pass gradually into each other. Besides varying in these 

 points, there is great variation in the length and scabridity of the 

 mucro in the female glumes, whence arose Wahlenberg's vars. 

 cuspidatd Sind nuitica ; also in the number of stigmas, some speci- 

 mens having two and some three, and in the colour of the glumes. 

 In the very reduced forms, subspathacea, reducta, &c., the glumes 

 are quite pale-coloured, as is often the case in high Arctic 

 glumaceous plants ; while in some of the taller forms from further 

 south, e.<i., Massachusetts, the southern parts of Scandinavia, and 

 the Caithness locality, the glumes are very dark in colour, forming 

 the varieties luematolepis, hdttegatensis, &c. 



Carex salina Wahlenberg, Act. Holm. 1803, 164 ; Flora Lapp. 

 246; Willd. 301; Schkuhr, fig. 185; Kunth Enum. p. 416; Fries 

 Mantissa, 3, 145 ; Summ. Veget. 231 ; Anderss. Fl. Scand. 49, t. 5, 

 fig. 50; Flor. Ross. p. 313; Boott. 111. Car. iv. 160, t. 525; 

 Boeckeler Cyp. Berl. Herb. p. 1377 ; Nyman Sveriges Fanerog. 

 ii. 730 ; Steudel Syn. Glum. h. 214. 



C. cmpidata Wahlenb. Act. Holm. 1803, 164. -- C. recta Boott. 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. p. 220, t. 222. — C. /uEmatolepis Drej. Rev. Car. 

 44. — c. halojMla Nyl. ; Fries Summ. Veget. 231 ; Anderss. Fl. 

 Scand. 48, t. 5, fig. 51. — C. kattegatensis Fr. — C. ambusta Boott. 

 111. i. 64, t. 172. — C. arctophila Nyl. Spicil. Fl. Fen. iii. 14. — C. 

 flaricans Nyl. I.e. p. 15. — C. bicolor Nyl., non All. — C. salinoides 

 Beurl. Syll. 398. 



Var. MINOR Boott. Illustr. iv. t. 525-530. 



Plant subcffispitose, stoloniferous, 12-18 in. high ; leaves nar- 

 row, erect, acuminate, equalling the culms in length, about f in. 

 across, keeled; keel and margins scabrid; culms erect, rather stiff, 

 triangular, striate; bracts leafy, acuminate, longer than the spikes; 



