228 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



ditches."— R. C. C. App. i. 5. " Harefield" (Middx.).— Blaclcstone, 

 Fasc. 56 (1737). 



C. axillaris Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 151 (1792). 1792. 

 "Mr. Curtis first found it near Putney." — Goodenougli, I.e. But 

 it had been previously distinguished from C. remote by Buddie. 



C. Boenninghausiana Weihe in Flora, ix. 759 (1826). 1643. 

 "Near Hertford. Rev. W. H. Coleman."— Bab. Man. ed. 1, 338. 

 "Was first recognized as a distinct species by Mr. Coleman in 

 1842."— Webb, Fl. Hertfordiensis, 315. 



C. helvola Blytt in Nya Bot. Notiser, 58 (1849). 1886. Col- 

 lected by Prof. Balfour at Lochnagar, N.B., Aug. 11, 1846, and 

 named C. ciirta var. alpicola. Recorded as C. helcoJa Blytt by Arthur 

 Bennett in Jonrn. Bot. 1886, 149. 



C. elongata L. Sp. PI. 974 (1753). 1808. "Mr. Jonathan 

 Salt discovered this in June, 1807, in a marshy place at Aldwark, 

 near the river Don, below Sheflield." — E. B. 1920. 



C. lagopina Wahlenb. in Vet. Acad. Nya Haudl. Stockh. 145 

 (1803). 1838. " Discovered on rocks in Lochnagar, Scotland, in 

 Aug. 1836, by Mr. Dickie & Mr. Clark."— E. B. Suppl. 2815. 



""C. canescens L. Sp. PI. 974 (1753). C. curta Good. (1792). 

 1670. " Gramen cyper. palustre elegans spica composita asperiore. 

 In a pool not far from Middleton towards Coleshill in Warwick- 

 shire," &c. — Ray Cat. 147. 



C. leporina L. Sp. PI. 973 (1753). C. ovalis Good. (1792). 

 1690. " Gramen cyperoides spica e pluribus spicis brevibus molli- 

 bus composita ... In pascuis locis humidioribus copiose." — Ray 

 Syn. i. 197. "In a wood near the boarded river" (Middx.). — 

 Petiver in Gibson's Camden (1695). 



C. alpina Sw. in Liljeb. Utk. Svensk Flora, ed. 2, 26 (1798). 

 1830. Discovered in 1830 by Prof. Balfour and Dr. Greville 

 " among some precipitous rocks which surround a small loch about 

 two miles above Loch Callader." — E. B. Supp. 2666 (C. Vahlii). 



C. atrata L. Sp. PI. 976 (1753). 1777. " Upon the highland 

 mountains frequent as upon Benteskerney . . . in Breadalbane." — 

 Lightfoot, FI. Scot. 555. 



C. fusca All. Fl. Ped. ii. 269 (1785). C. Buxbaumii Wahl. 

 (1803). 1835. Found in 1835 "on one of the small islands of 

 Lough Neagh, County Derry. D. Moore." — Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 i. 305. 



C. data All. Fl. Ped. ii. 272 (1785) (C. stricta Good, in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 196 (1792). 1792. " Prope Norwich. D. Pitchford." 

 — Goodenough, /. c. For earlier (? doubtful) synonyms see Bab. 

 Fl. Cambs. 260 ; Ray Syn. ii. 204, 4 ; and Huds. ii. 412 (cfespitosa). 



C. acuta L. Sp. PI. 978, var. (3. (1753). C. gracilis Curt. Fl. 

 Lond. iv. 62 (c. 1783). 1670. " Gramen cyp. majus angustifol. 

 . . . in pratis humidis." — Ray Cat. 143. "In Battersea meadows." 

 — Curtis, /. c. 



C. trinervis Degland in Loisel. Fl. Gall. 731 (1807). 1884. 

 Found in 1869-70, in Norfolk, by Mr. H. G. Glasspoole.— Journ. 

 Bot. 1884, 125. 



(To be contimied.) 



