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fi. borealis Almq. 



f. discolor (F. Nyl.). 

 C. salina * mutica Wahlenb. 

 a. silhs}>athacca (Drej.). 

 f. curvata Drej. 

 t f. nardij'olia Wahlenb. 

 p. flavicmu (F, Nyl.). 

 C. rifiida x salinn ■''■ cuspidata var. hcFmatolepis [— C. rif/idn var. 

 lon/jipes Lfest.] 



C. rigida X salina * mutica vnv. flavicans [=6'. arctophiht F. Nyl.] 

 C. salina X vultfaris jiinccUa [= C. spiculosa F. Nyl.] 

 C. aguatilis X salina * cuspidata [= C. Jtalophila F. Nyl.] 

 Whether this treatment of C. salina simplities matters I much 

 doubt ; it is brimful of long written combinations that might be 

 made, with the opportunity of appending one's name to each. 



I hope that Mr. C. B. Clarke will see his way to some simple 

 way of expressing these different forms under subspecies. The 

 work of having to notify a correspondent of having received or found 

 a single specimen with five long names in combination is too much 

 for this short life. 



That mythical plant C. styi/ia Fries is disposed of thus : — 

 "F. Nylander's example in Fries's herbarium of C. stijj/ia from 

 Hibina is 0. pulla (Th. Fries, laktt. 200). An example in Fischer's 

 herbarium is C. liinosa, according to Treviranus in Moscow Bull. 

 1863, 542." A curious commentary on this is found in a series of 

 Carex limosa kindly sent me by Mr. Duncan from the Outer Hebrides 

 (Harris). I was surprised at the amount of variability these speci- 

 mens exhibited, and among them were two examples from which 

 the drawing of C. stijuia in Andersson's Scandinacian CyperacecB 

 (t. 7, fig. 71 (1849)) might well have been made. I have before 

 remarked the likeness of some liinosa forms to C. jndla Good. 



No doubt the Carices show a large amount of work on the part 

 of Dr. Almquist, but I think that there is considerable need among 

 such species as salina for cultivating the forms. I have noted that 

 C. kattcffatensis Fries grown almost submerged in water varies greatly 

 in the glumes, so much so that isolated examples might be taken 

 and referred to C'. mutica ; and I find that, if kept in a pot, the 

 stems are shortened, and the leaves are lengthened, the colour also 

 becoming greener than in the native Caithness form. 



Arthur Bennett. 



Tlie Botany of Ayrshire (by Parishes), from oriyinal investiyation. 

 Ardrossan : A. Guthrie & Sons. 1896. 



Under this title Mr. John Smith, of Monkredding, Ayr, has 

 published an interleaved list of Ayrshire plants. Some of the 

 species recorded are not to be found in the second edition of Topo- 

 graphical Botany, although also given for Ayrshire in Mr. P. 



t This is an error. I have seen an original specimen from Wahlenberg in 

 the Boott Herbarium at Kew, and that specimen is certainly C.juncclht Th. Fr. 

 — C. vuhidri-i WHY. junceUti Fr. 



