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Dubh, Tor an Tairbert, near Locb Eil (v.-c. 97) in 1902." Tbis 



is about six miles further inland than Mr. Macvicar's stations. 

 Going south from this, the following stations may be noted: — 

 73. Kirkcudbright. On Auchencairn Moor, J. McAndrew sp., 



1882. 



46. Cardigan. Dyfi estuary marshes, A. Ley in Eecord Club 



Rep. 1881-5-6 (1887), pp. 109, 148. Borth Bog, L. Cuming in 



Exchange Club Rep. for 1912 (1913), p. 292. 



41. Glamorgan. " On Cromyln Bog, near Swansea," E. Forster, 

 1805, Botanist's Guide, p. 753. There is a specimen in Herb. 

 Brit. Mus., but we have no recent record. 



17. Surrey. Ponds near Elstead and Thursley, E. S. Mar- 

 shall sp., 1882. 



11. Hants, South. " I found this plentifully in a bog between 

 Southampton and Limington in August," Petiver (1716), Cone. 

 Gram. n. 149. Reeves sp., 1884. 



8. Wilts, South. Landford Common, Tatum sp., 1892. 



6. Somerset. Sole (1782) in MS. Flora. " Burtle Moor, near 

 Mark," Clark in Proc. Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 1856. 

 Clarke sp., 1855. 



The foregoing are the counties for which the records may be 

 accepted. Besides these it has been reported for four others : — 



2. Cornwall, E. "Recorded for the county by Ray in Syn. 

 Meth. Stirp. 1690, and from ' within rive miles of Trewhiddle' by 

 Pascoe in Cat. Wats. [i. e. catalogue sent to Watson] . It was 

 accepted for Cornwall by Watson in Cyb. Brit. iii. (1852), un- 

 doubtedly on the strength of Pascoe's Catalogue, drawn up two 

 years earlier ; but in Top. Bot. doubt is cast on its occurrence in 

 the county," Davey, Fl. Cornwall, 471. 



40. Salop. Leighton, Fl. Shrop. (1841), pp. 36, 508. We 

 have no modern confirmation, yet the borders of the meres would 

 seem to be a likely locality. 



42. Brecon. Watson in Top. Bot. ed. 1 (1874), p. 421, who 

 suggests that the record is erroneous. 



62. York, N.E. " Bogs near Turington [Terrington] , growing 

 among the S. albus, rare," Teesdale in Bot. Guide (1805), p. 667 

 (entered with a mark of doubt). It may be that Teesdale mistook 

 the var. sordida of alba for fusca. It is not noticed by Mr. Baker 

 in N. Yorkshire, ed. 2 (1892), p. 390, and Watson (I, c.) suggests 

 it was an error. 



Even omitting the four last-named counties, the distribution 

 of the plant is very peculiar, and suggests that careful search will 

 detect it in other counties. 



The first records for the British Isles are : — 



England. — " Cyperus minor angustifolius palustris capitulis 

 fuscis paleacis. In occidentalis Angliae." Morison, Hist. Oxon. 

 iii. 239 (1699). 



Scotland. — A. Bennett in Scottish Naturalist, 1888, 257. 



Ireland. — " Wet bogs near the bottom of Purple Mountain, 

 Killarney," Mackay in Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. v. (1806), p. 127. 



In Europe it is generally distributed in Sweden (in fourteen 



