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Carex arenar'ia, Linn. " Sandy ground near Frensliam, Surrey." — 

 H. C. Watson. These inland specimens are quite similar to the mari- 

 time ones, and show no tendency to become 0. disticka, Huds., which 

 Mr. Benthasn considers merely "an inland variety of C. areuaria.'' 



C. aquatUis, Waiil. ?, var. Watsoiii. " Eiver Don, at Dyce, Aberdeen." 

 — J. lloY. Dr. Roy has been good enough to send living specimens of 

 the Carex supposed to be C. acuta, which grows in the river Don, near 

 Aberdeen. As I expected, it proves to be C. TFatsonl. The leaves are 

 narrower and much more glaucous than in the alpine form of C. arjnatiUs, 

 the stems 2 to 3 feet high. Dr. Hooker, in the ' Student's Flora,' inad- 

 vertently quotes my var. Walsoni as a synonym of Dr. Boott's "var. 

 2, minor," instt-ad of under "var. 1, aqiiatilis proper," under which, I 

 siippose, it ought to be, though the stem can scarcely be described as 

 " scaberulous above." 



Carex flava, var. lepidocarpa . " Orrock Hill, Fife." — J. BosWELL 

 Syme. I collected a few specimens of this plant, but not nearly enough 

 to satisfy the demands for it. 'J his can only be from the plant not being 

 properly known. I am coutirnied in this opinion by some remarks by a 

 botanist so well acquainted with Carices as Mr. Sidebotham at the 

 Literary and Fiiilosophical Society of Manchester, where he remarks that 

 in C lepidocarpa the fruit is " pale green, or yellowish-green, and the 

 beak straight." There is no perceptible diflerence in the colour of the 

 fmit of C. lepidocarpa aiul C.fava (jenidna when examined in the same 

 stage of ripeness. They bolh cominence with being green and end with 

 being brownish-yellow, and the beak of C. lepidocarpa is always detiexed, 

 tbougii not so much so as in the genuine form. Mr. Sidebotham's remarks 

 respecting C. lepidocarpa would rather apply to C. (Ederi. C. Q^deri has 

 no special partiality for the coast, either in England or Scotland ; this 

 is in answer to a query put in the April number of the 'Journal of 

 Botany.' (Yol. Y. p. 127). 



C. punctata, Gaiul. " Co. Cork." — L Carroll. Mr. A. G. More has 

 sent a specimen of the veritable plant, so that the ? given after L'eland, 

 in the third edition of 'English Botany,' vol. x. p. ]51, must be ex- 

 punged. 



Alopecurus f ulcus, Sm. " The locality from which the specimen was 

 gathered was discovered by Eev. W. H. Puvchas in IS 69; the plant is 

 new to Herefordshire." — A. Ley. 



y4r/rostis setac.ea, Curtis. " Sparingly on Woking Lleath, between the 

 Woking Station and the Dramatic College; confirming the grass to the 

 county of Surrey, although in a different part of it from the old and 

 doubted localities." — H. C. W'atson. 



Aba uliginosa, Weihe. " Swampy hollows, nearly dry in July, on 

 Woking Heath, Surrey ; one of them about a quarter of a mile southward 

 from the Dramatic College, the other f.bout the like distance nearer to 

 Woking Station. It may shortly become extinct in both, tin'ough the 

 progress of enclosure and drainage. Some specimens were dried for 

 distribution, as better showing the tufted growth than did those brought 

 fi'om Fleet Pond, Hampshire, in 1869, two months later in the season." 

 — H. C. Watson. " Still occurs at Loch of Park, and in profusion near 

 Loch Connor, between Aboyne and Ballater ; indeed I liave a suspicion 

 now that it is abundant in the interior of this district, but at presenr, 

 I can speak with certainty as to these two localities only. The alti- 

 tude of Loch Connor is 600 feet."— J. PiOY. 



