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alternate and S2)iral, but are usually opposite to each other and 

 in pairs" {I.e. 14). He described seven examples of first-year 

 seedlino-s, which bore 1-30 compound leaves ; he also mentioned 

 seedlings of the second year's growth with more than 100 trifoliolate 

 and bifoliolate leaves, but many of the compound leaves were doubtless 

 borne on lateral branches. In one seedling collected in the shade 

 "the lower thirty leaves were neither trifoliate nor simple, but were in 

 all stages of transformation of the former into the latter " (/. c. 10). 



CAUEX FORMS WITH LONG PEDUNCLES. 

 Br H. Stuart Tiio^^ipsox, F.L.S. 



ly the Kew Bulletin (1920, No. -1) is an article by Mr. W. B. 

 Turrill, quoted by Dr. Druce in Kept. B. E. C. (Sept. 1921), in 

 reference to Carex riparia var. gracilis in Britain. It was pointed 

 out that the earliest name applicable to this plant is C. riparia Curt, 

 var. /3 (jracilis Coss. et Germ., Flore de Paris, 1845, where the 

 description ran: — " Tiges presque lisses sur les angles. Feuilles 

 souvent vertes. Epis males solitaires ou gemines. Epis femelles laxi- 

 fiores, longuement pedoneules, souvent pendants. Utricules longue- 

 ment depasses par les ecailles. Ecailles tres longuement cuspidees- 

 aristees." Eouy and Foucaud make it a synonym of var. gracilles- 

 cens Hartm. sub-var. arisfafa Rouy et Fouc. 



Of the three plants mentioned in the note, one was gathered by 

 Miss Ida Koper at Tickenham Moor, N. Somerset, and sent to the 



B. E. C. and reported on by Mr. Bennett and the late E. S. Marshall. 

 Miss Roper recently showed this plant at a meeting of the Bristol 

 Botanical Club, and I was reminded of a series of strange forms of 



C. a cut if or mis Ehrh. {C. paludosa Good.) gathered at Max, Wins- 

 combe, N. Somerset, on the very day, June 5th, 1915, that Miss Roper 

 had o-athered her riparia variety. After exhibition at the above- 

 mentioned Botanical Club, I sent S23ecimens to Dr. Rendle for Herb. 

 Brit. Mus. ; and ui 1917 the late Mr. Marshall commented thus on 

 my mounted series of five sheets of C. acutiformis from Max : — 



(1) "Evidently a monstrosity, rather than a true variety. The 

 arrested growth of the fruit has been made up by the elongations of 

 the o-lumes. Very remarkable." Some of- the glumes on fertile 

 spikes are 28 mill, long, others 10-15 mill., and a 50 mill, bract-like 

 glume comes from the lowest abortive flower on one spike. The 

 peduncles are long and very slender, and most of the leaves are 

 extremely filiform," fifteen of them springing from one of the fruit- 

 ing plants. 



(2) "A monstrosity, I believe." One of the fertile heads on this 

 sheet is on a filiform pendulous stalk extending as much as 3| 

 decimetres from its junction with the rachis ; glumes only 5-10 mill, 

 long, and the leaves more normal. Probably an abnormal form of 

 \di\' subulafa J)oe\l = Kochiaua DC. = C. spadicea Roth. The 

 glumes in (1) and their lower portions in (2) are strongly den.tate- 

 serrate. 



