260 NOTES ON CAEEX. 



broad, generally shorter than the fruit, fruit with minute impressions 

 all over, without nerves, or nearly so. 



Mr. Beeby gathered in Shetland specimens that were referred 

 to c(Espitosa by Dr. Lange, but as Mr. Beeby did not feel quite 

 satisfied, and as the material was scanty, it was thought best 

 to leave it out of the London Catalogue. In 1884 Mr. Percival 

 sent me from Wensleydale, Yorkshire, a number of Carices, among 

 them good specimens of a Carex that I sorted with C. Goodenowii. 

 Here they lay until I had occasion to compare an odd Hebridean 

 specimen, when on turning over the sheet I at once saw they were 

 ciFspitosa. It must be remembered that our Floras formerly had a 

 "(7. ccEspitosa" ; this was either stricta Good, or Goodenowii Gay. 

 The c^sjJifosa at Kew marked by Goodenough "my caspitosa" are 

 Goodenowii Gay = vithjaris Fr. ; curiously enough, on the sheet is 

 one spike of C.jlacca. 



C. Goodenowii Gay in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xi. 191 (1839). 

 C. vulgaris Fries, Nov. Ft. Suec. Mant. 3, 158 (1842). ^. melccna 

 (Wimm.). C. vielmm Wimmer iu Flora, 1850, 619. This was 

 introduced into the London Catalogue on faith of specimens named 

 by Dr. Christ fi'om Perthshire for Dr. B. "White. It has (in the 

 Scotch plant) a slender stem, very dark short-spiked female spikes, 

 and a slender male spike. 



I possess a curious form of Goodenoidi* from sands near the sea 

 on the Ayrshire coast, gathered in 1896 by Mr. A. Somerville; it is 

 exactly analogous to var. "y. bulbosa Drej. Sgmb. Caric. t. 17, 20 

 (1844) = C. hidbosa Vahl herb.," as that is of C. flacca Schreb. 

 Hjelt mentions a form of Goodenowii as analogous to C. acuta 

 personata Fr, from Tavastland, in Finland. I have somewhat 

 similar ones from Anglesea (J. E. Grijith) and Argyll {E. S. 

 Marshall). 



C. FLACCA Schreb. Spic. Ft. Lips. app. 150 (1771). The following 

 forms occur in Britain : — 



/3. erythrostachijs Hoppe {xxndev glauca) in Limuna, xiii. 63 (1839). 



/ ^. erecta Heuff. I.e. xxxi. 63 (1863). Wet rocks near Foynes, 

 Co. Limerick {S. A. Stewart). 



y. acuminata Anders. Cyp. Scand. 31 (1849). 



= C. acuminata Willd. 5>. 4, 300 (1805). Outer Hebrides (TF. .9. 

 Duncan). Eichter calls this "serrulata Biv. Stirp. Futr. 4, 9 (1806)." 



Heuffler describes a var. alpina, but I have seen no specimens 

 that could be referred to this plant from Britain ; our plant does not 

 seem to ascend higher than 2100 ft. I believe that Mr. Druce first 

 used the name C.jiacca var. stictocarpa in Journ. Lot. 1888, 368, so 

 that my name as attached to it must be expunged. 



C. MAGELLANiCA Lam. Encycl. iii. 385 (1789). C. irriqua Smith 

 in Hoppe's Caric. 72 (1828). 



C. PELiA 0. F. Lang in Linnaa, xxiv. 575 (1851). C. Langii 

 (M. N. Blytt) Steud. Syn. Fl. Cyp. ii. 227 (1855). C. panicca var. 



* This may be f. inacrolepis Norman, Fl. Arct. Norvcg. 49 (18'.)3), but I have 

 not seen a specimen of Norman's plant. 



