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Plants slender, filiform, fasciculate-ramose, branching from 

 innovations the whole length of the stem, or from the base only, 

 floating. Leaves distant, linear-lanceolate, short-auriculate, the 

 lamina ending at the auricles and three times as long. Flowers 

 monoecious, terminal, on more or less elongate branchlets, the male 

 axillary sometimes aggregate ; perigonium of two or three leaves ; 

 fruits (cladogenous) on young shoots. Calyptra nearly black, erose 

 or lacerate at base ; capsule oblong-ovate, greenish, soft, red at 

 orifice, gradually narrowed to a short green pedicel, very fragile 

 at the base, lid as long as the capsule, teeth short, irregularly 

 laciniate or perforate above the middle, yellowish at base, pellucid. 

 J. E. Bagnall. 



New Worcestershire Carices. — The recent spell of dry weather 

 has afforded good opportunity for the getting of sedges and other 

 water plants ; and it has been gratifying to find in a damp copse 

 only four miles from the centre of Birmingham, and just within 

 the Worcestershire boundary, Ctire.v Ucviijata Smith, which has not 

 previously been recorded for the county, and it is also very rare in 

 Warwickshire. It was kindly named by Mr. Arthur Bennett. 

 Growing near it are fine patches of C. vedcaria and a quantity of 

 C. strigosa, which is rare in Worcestershire and absent from War- 

 wickshire. The following species can also be found in different 

 parts of the copse, viz. C. Pseudo-cypenis, rostrata, valpina, remota, 

 Goodenowii, and syJvatica. Part of this wood is, alas ! being used 

 as a tip for rubbish by the Birmingham Corporation; but bushes 

 of " guelder rose " and raspberry and the white flowers of Ruhini 

 suherectm still adorn the greater portion ; and Equisetiim si/lvaticnin 

 is spread over a considerable area, with E. limosum in two of the 

 pools, and a great mass of Viola palustris hard by. At Stanklin 

 Pool, near Kidderminster, Carex Ehrhartiana (Hoppe) is to be found 

 in a boggy part of the pool, growing with the type C. teretiuscula 

 Good., and interspersed with C. rostrata, as at Sutton Park. It is a 

 new locality for both these sedges, and an interesting extension of 

 the present range of the little-known form called Ehrhartiana. 

 I understand, however, that the latter is now looked upon as 

 merely a state of the true type, with which opinion I should myself 

 concur. — H. Stuart Thompson. 



Carex depauperata near Bristol. — In May, 1888, I gathered 

 what I thought was a young specimen of Carex sylvatica in Leigh 

 Wood, on the Somerset side of the Avon ; but, observing recently 

 its resemblance to an immature form of C. depauperata Good. ( = 

 C. ventricosa Curtis) from Mr. Arthur Bennett, I sent my Bristol 

 plant to him, and he agrees that it is depauperata. Mr. J. W. White 

 tells me that it has not been seen at its old station near Axbridge, 

 on Mendip, for many years ; so the appearance of this very rare 

 sedge in a fresh locality in North Somerset is of some importance. 

 H. Stuart Thompson. 



Ulex nanus in the Isle of Man. — Mr. L. Watt, of Clydebank, 

 has sent me a specimen of undoubted na^nis from West Douglas 

 Head. He says : " This is the Ule.v that is common all over from 



