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below, and the leaves much wider. Differs from aqiiatilis in the 

 very dark subrotuud glumes, with a very narrow central nerve, the 

 very blunt, rounded and regular male glumes (in most Carices the 

 male glumes are often irregular and afford no characters); broader, 

 subrotund fruit very faintly nerved at the base ; the shorter stricter 

 spikes, and the male spike, one only in the specimens seen : from 

 stricta, in the basal portion of the stem, which is coloured ; and 

 aqiiatiUs-\ike, in the shape of the fruit and glumes of both male and 

 female spikes, in the sheaths being non-fibrillose, and hi the fruit, 

 which is almost nerveless and subrotund. My specimens were 

 gathered by Mr. E. W. Scully "on Galway's river, Old Kenmare 

 Koad, Co. Kerry, 15, G, 89." From the same locality I also 

 possess C. iKjwdilis from Mr. Scully. In Jouni. Bot. 1889, 91, 

 Mr. Scully records ('. [strict^) Hiulsonil from " several places about 

 Lakes of Killarney," The aquatilis is from " near Upper Lake, 

 Killarney" [Juiini. Bot. 1890, IIG). 



C. sALiNA Wahl. * KATTEGATENsis (Fries). C. katte(jat€nsis Fries 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Ups. (1857). The occurrence of this in a second 

 Scotch county by the Beauly Frith was of much interest to me, as 

 I had predicted its possible occurrence there when writing of the 

 Caithness plant in the Juvch. Club Eeport for 1884, p. 118 (1885). 

 I beheve now that another saiina form can be added to our Flora, 

 though it must be very rare, as I have only succeeded in finding 

 three specimens in herbaria as yet, — one in my own collection, one 

 in the Kew Herbarium, and one in the Bos well Herbarium. I 

 believe these are C. epiijcjos Fries (non Laest.), Bot. Not. 105 (1843), 

 Sniinii. Vej. Sr. 233 (1846). This has been variously treated by 

 authors. Fries, in his original description, gives as a synonym 

 " C. (iquatilis (3. epi(/rjos Laest.," but this has since proved incorrect. 

 After this reference he adds, " C. aquatilis Hook. Brit. Fl. iv. 336," 

 but with no mark of certainty. My specimen was sent me by the 

 late Dr. B. White, and labelled " The mountain form of C. aquatilis, 

 Caenlochan, Forfar." Now the fruit and glumes seem to me a 

 saliiia form, and not aquatilis or )i(iida form. Andersson puts it 

 among his " bicolores " on the strength of Nylander's description of 

 his C. discolor Spic. Fl. Fenn. iii. 12 (1846). Nyman so places it, 

 but it may be a slip for C. hicolor Nyl., which he puts to (\ qiiijcjos 

 Fr. Almquist and Hjelt refers Fries's plant to a sali)ia form. The 

 o^-iginal specimens of this were odd, and although there was a 

 terminal male spike, it was so shortened, and the glumes elongated, 

 as to appear sessile on the upper female spike, and it had at its 

 base female flowers ; but this was, I believe, only an arrest of 

 growth, and in other specmiens the spike was elongated, but still 

 with female Howers at the base. But this condition of the male 

 spike (sub-androgynia Fr.) is not that of the true bicolores ; i, e. C. 

 bicolor All. and C. nardina Fr. Nyman, in a note No. 257 Consp. 

 FL Furop. Supp. ii. 375 (1890), follows Mr. Ridley in .lourn. B,ot. 

 1885, 289-91, in quoting the Sum ma for this; certainly the de- 

 scription is longer, and Fries speaks with less certainty ; but on the 

 whole the original description is applicable, though confused with 

 Laestadius's plant. 



