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If I am correct in these uotes, we may sum them up thus, — that 

 the reference of the Forfar- Aberdeen rbjida var. infendpina was 

 correct (though mixed with others) ; that it is substantially (.'. hyper- 

 borea Drej.; that another form occurs with the habit oi aqnatilis, 

 but is a ngida form, i.e. limula Fr. ; that a third form occurs that 

 is riiiida altered in growth by growing by rills (as suggested by Mr. 

 Beeby) ; that Dr. i3. White's plant is C. epujejos Fr., but not of 

 Laestadius ; and that one at least of our lowland aquatUis forms is 

 near C. stuns Drej. (except that it has more than one male spike). 



C. SPicuLosA Fries Bot. Not. 99(1843). Summ. Veg. Scand. 226 

 (1840), forma nov. Hchridcnse, Ar. Benn. C. solina cuspidata x 

 (Joodenowii, junceUct, teste Almquist, But. Not. 128 (1891). Dr. 

 Almquist agrees with me in considering that the specimens of Carex 

 gathered by Mr. Duncan in Harris, Outer Hebrides, are the nearest 

 to spiculosa of any named form, the only appreciable difference 

 being the want, in the Hebrideau specimens, of the serrulate 

 glumes (although they are equally as elongated) of Fries's plant. 

 This plant of Fries is one of the rarest Carices ; it occurs on the 

 Kamschatka promontory on the White Sea, in Russian Lapland 

 (Karelia keretnia of the Finnish botanists); and perhaps at " !Suma 

 in Karelia pomorica," but the latter Almquist considers may be 

 C. sdlina * cuspidata burealis x Goodenuwii. This plant is usually 

 quoted as of Fries, but there is some probability that Nylander in 

 >SpiciL Fl. Fenn. 2 (1843), was really earlier. But I cannot ascer- 

 tain whether the SpicUe<jium was published before or after July in 

 1843, the month in which the Notiservi-AS published. Hjelt quotes 

 " C.spiculosa Fr. & Nyl.," and says, "Spec. 2, p. 21, ubi prnnum 

 describiter." The dilticulty with our plant is to find the salina 

 parent ; the only other Carices Mr. Duncan can find in the neigh- 

 bourhood are C. glauca and two forms of C. Goodenowii, The 

 peculiar colour is very marked in our plant. W. Boott, in Bot. 

 (Jazi'tte, ix. 88 (1884), gives a '' C. spiculosa .^ " from "brackish 

 marshes near Boston, Mass." Prof. Bailey suggests " C. stricta 

 Lam. X salina " {Pioc. Am. Ac. 3, 85 (1886) ). It is a very curious 

 plant, but is not the plant of Fries. Lang, in Linnaa, xxiv. p. 552 

 (1851), observes: — "CI. Friesius Caricuni spicalosam ad stirpem 

 C, maiitinnc refert, sed ut mihi videtur, transitum optime facit a 

 CcBpitosis ad !:Sulinas.'' 



(To be continued.) 



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RuBUs Dkejeri G. Jensen in Somerset. — A few weeks ago Mr. 

 Rogers and myself had the pleasure of a short visit from Mr. Gelert, 

 the Danish batologist. One result of this visit is that a number of 

 closely-allied brambles from W. Somerset, which we had placed 

 under //. scaber Wh. & N. (though with considerable hesitation, 

 especially on the part of Mr. Rogers), have been determined by Mr. 

 Gelert as "good Drejeri." I believe that this is the first record for 

 England of R. Drejeri (segregate). All the plants recorded in the 



