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86 & 1138. Specimens from Kobert Brown are in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit, labelled " Arbigtland in Galloway, 1709, Dr. Walker, who 

 thought it was the Schcen.ferruf/incus Lin." — it appears under this 

 name in Lightfoot, 86. l)r. Walker was "its original discoverer," 

 E. B. 1010. 



Eriophorum alpinum L. Sp. PI. 53 (1753). 1794. "Found 

 by Mr. Brown & Mr. Bon in a moss about three miles east of 

 Forfar." — Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 290. " Moss of Restenet, Forfar- 

 shire, first found in Aug. 1791, in company with Mr. George Don." 

 — R. Brown in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



E. vaginatum L. Sp. PI. 52 (1753). 1641. "Gramen junceum 

 montanum subcaerulea spica. Mosse-crops." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 

 pars alt. 23. 



E. angustifolium Roth, Tent. i. 24 (1788). 1597. " Upon 

 a bog at further end of Hampsted heath," &c. — Ger. 27. 



E. latifolium Hoppe, Taschenb. 1800, 108. 1794. "I found 

 this first in bogs in Northamptonsbire." — J. Dickson in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 289. See also E. B. 503. Specimens collected by 

 Dickson in 1792 are in Herb, Mus. Brit. 



E. gracile Koch ap. Roth, Catalect. ii. 259 (1800). 1835. 

 Discovered in 1835 by Joseph Woods near Halnaby, Yorkshire. — 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 290. 



Rynchospora fusca Dryand, in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, i. 127 

 (1810). 1716. " 1 found this plentifully in a bog between South- 

 ampton and Limiugton in August." — Petiver, Cone. Gram. no. 148. 



R. alba Vahl, Enum. ii. 229 (1806). 1633. "I never found 

 this but once, and that was in the coinpanie of M. Thomas Smith 

 and M. James Clarke, Apothecaries of London ; we riding into 

 Windsore Forest upon the search of rare plants." — Johnson, Ger. 

 Emac. 30C-^). 



(To be continued.) 



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Carex depauperata. — Mr. Jackson, in Index Kewensis, prints 

 under Carex, 



^' ventrkosa Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. vi. t. 68 = depauperata." 

 "depauperata Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. (1794), 181." 

 It is of course obvious that Curtis's name claims precedence over 

 Goodeuough's, for it is quoted by the latter when establishing his 

 depauperata. Curtis, when describing his plant, says : " The late 

 Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, who had seen it growing with me, was pleased 

 to call it depauperata, from the paucity of its flowers, a name in 

 which we sometime acquiesced ; but, on maturer consideration, we 

 think the name we have now given it more expressive of its principal 

 character " (Curtis, /. c). Yet it seems to me that depauperata must 

 stand as the specific name of the plant, not on the authority of 

 Goodenougb, but on that of Curtis, who published it in his 

 Catalogue of the .... Plants cultivated in the London Botanic 



