FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 227 



by Dr. Dickie aud Mr. Templeton in Aberdeenshire. — Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 191 : found Aug. 2, 1836 ; note on E. B. drawing. 



C. pauciflora Lightf. Fl. Scot. 513 (1777). 1777. "We 

 found this new species of Carcx . . . about half-way up the moun- 

 tain of Goat-lield, in the Isle of Arran." — Lightfoot, I.e. 



C. incurva Lightf. Fl. Scot. 544 (1777). 1777. " This new 

 species of Carex was communicated by Dr. Hope .... discovered 

 in deep loose sea-sand at the mouth of the water of Naver, and 

 near Skelherry, in Dunrosuess, in Shetland."— Lightfoot, I.e. 



C. divlsa Huds. i. 318 (1762). 1688. " Prope Hithain Col- 

 cestrensem in Essexia." — Ray Hist. ii. 129G. 



C. disticha Huds. i. 347 (1762). 1670. " Gramini cyperoidi 

 ex monte Ballon simile ... in palustribus et aquosis." — Rciy Cat. 

 145. "Near Bungay, Suffolk, frequent."— Mr. Woodward in With. 

 Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 1029 (1787). 



C. arenaria L. Sp. PI. 973 (1753). 1688. " In arenosis 

 locis frequens." — Ray Hist. ii. 1297. 



C. diandra Schrank. in Act. Acad. Mogunt. 49 (1782). (C. 

 teretiuscula Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 163 (1792). =:= 1792. 

 "Prope Norwich. Dom. Crowe." — Goodenough, /. c. But see Ray Syn. 

 i. 197. 



C. paradoxa Willd. in Act. Acad. Berol. 39 (1794). 1843. 

 "In a boggy wood at Ladiston, near Mullingar [Ireland] . Mr. D. 

 Moore."— Bab. Man. ed. 1, 337. 



C. paniculata L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1383 (1762). 1666. " Gr. 

 Cyperoides maximum spicis pendulis at Bocknam in Surrey, in a 

 bog. Hujus radicibus utuntur pro sedilibus in agro Eboraceusi." 

 — Merrett, 51. Still called "Seat seggs " in Yorkshire. — F. A. 

 Lees, Fl. West Yorkshire, 461. 



C. vulpina L. Sp. PL 973 (1753). 1629. "Ad insulam 

 Sheppey. Gra. palustre Cyperoides, Lob." — Johns. Kent, 5. In 

 Fl. Middx. "Gramen palustre echinatum" is erroneously identified 

 with this species. 



C. muricata L. Sp. PI. 974 (1753). 1633. " Gramen cype- 

 roides parvum." — Ger. em. 21, & Johns. Merc. Bot. 41. " Gr. cyp. 

 spicatum minus." — Ray Syn. i. 198, 9 (1690). 



C. divulsa Good, 'in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 160 (1792). 1690. 

 " Gramen cyp. spicatum minus spica longa divulsa seu interrupta. 

 In pascuis locis humidioribus." — Ray Syn. i. 199. " Harefield " 

 (Middx.).— Blackst. Fasc. 86 (1737). 



C. echinata Murr. Prodr. Gott. 76 (1770). C. stellata Good. 

 (1792). 1690. " Gramen cyp. spicatum minimum spica divulsa 

 aculeata. Locis palustribus, solo putrido & spongioso." — Ray Syn. 

 i. 199. Mr. Druce suggests that Merrett's " Gr. Cyperoides spica 

 echinata simplici. Two miles southward from Oxford in the boggs" 

 may be this. 



C. remota L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1383 (1762). 1663. "Gramen 

 cyperoides angustifolium panicula multiplici. On the banks of many 



* N.B. — Vol. ii. of the Transactions is dated 1794 ; but, as Dr. Goodenough's 

 paper was read April 3rd, 1792. I propose to quote it as above. 



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