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CyPERACE^. 



Eleocharis acicularis R. Br. Commou ? Gatn. 343. (3) 

 Sherbrook Valley. I have never met with this elsewhere in the 

 county. 



E. palustris E. Br. Common ! Gam. 



E. muiticaulis Sm. Common ? Gam. (3) Betwixt Shng- 

 borough and Brocton, J. Power ! I have not seen this in the 

 county. 



Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf. (3) Chartley Bog, Brown, 271. 



S. caespitosus L. Common ? Gam. MZ. (1) Wickerstone 

 rocks, Painter. (3) Cannock Chase ! Brown, 291 ; Norton Bog 

 and Norton Common ; probably abundant on the moorlands in the 

 north. 



S. fluitans L. Common? (1) Craddock's Moss, &c., Gam. 

 343. (3) Cannock Chase ; Norton Bog ; Sherbrook Valley. (4) 

 White Sitch Pool, Weston-under-Lizard, Shaw, 113. 



S. setaceus L. Common ! Gam. 343. (3) Kingston Pool ! 

 Fraser ; King's Bromley ! Moore ; Little Aston ; Little Bosses ; 

 Stonnall, &c. (4) Perton Canal and Reservoir ; Oulton. 



S. lacustris L. Common, Gam. ! 343. 



S. Tabernsemontani Gmel. (3) Shirleywich, Gam. 343 ; 

 Branston, J. G. Wells. (4) Oulton, abundant. 



S. maritimus L. (3) Shirleywich, near Stafford, Stokes, With. 

 77 ; Branston meadows. Brown, 291 ; salt-marsh near Kingston ; 

 near Kingston Pool, Fraser. No trace of it at Kingston Pool, 1897, 

 J. E. B. 



S. carinatus Sm. (4) Chickhill Pool, Enville, and at Himley, 

 Scott, Purt. iii. " is probably an error, through mistaking ;S'. sylvaticus 

 for this."— Wats. Top. Bot. 440. 



S. sylvaticus L. (2) Rudyard ; Harracles Mill, Painter; near 

 Alton ; and Churnet Valley. (3) Brook near Pipe Hill, J. Power ; 

 Stoke Meadows, Gam. 343. (4) Weston-under-Lizard, Shaw, 113; 

 Lower Penn, Fraser ; Trysull. 



Eriophorum vaginatum L. (1) Wickerstone Rocks, Painter. 



(2) Wetley Moor, Gam. 344 ; near Cheadle ! Carter, 1839. (3) 

 Whitmore, Gam. ; near Stafford ! Douglas ; between Shugborough 

 and Brocton! J. Power; King's Bromley, Moore; Norton Pool and 

 Bog ; Sherbrook Valley. (4) Aqualate Mere and Pitmore Pool, 

 Shaw, 103 ; Seckley ; Upper Arley. 



E. angustifolium Roth. (1) Rickerstone Rocks, between Lask 

 Edge and Rushton Spencer, Painter. (2) Wetley Moor, Gam. 



(3) Norton Bog and Common ; Chartley Moss ; Sherbrook Valley. 



(4) Aqualate Mere! covering several acres, With. 72 ; Willowbridge, 

 Gam. ; Penn Common. 



Rynchospora alba Vahl. (1) Craddock's Moss. (3) Chartley 

 Moss ; Whitmore, Gam. 343. 



