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/3. suhliv'ida AucTers. Cyp. Scand. 33 (1849), teste Hartmann/'' C. panicea 

 L. ft. pcUa Ricbter, PL Europ. 159 (1890). Caithness, July, 1887, 

 F. J. Hanhury, This agrees exactly with a specimen sent me by 

 Prof. Blytt from " Norvegia : Christiania (e loco classico Langnosu " ; 

 gathered by his father, Prof. M. N. Blytt. The original specimens 

 on which this was founded were gathered by M. N. Blytt. Lang 

 remarks, "Ab habitu Caricis var/inata, colore livido-glauco totius 

 plants longe differt." British specimens named C. pdia by Dr. 

 Christ seem to me doubtful ; of others I so named from Morven, 

 Caithness, Sir J. D. Hooker wrote me, "I would rather call this 

 voyinata," and I agree, after seeing the true plant. Lang gives no 

 synonyms. The Caithness specimen is the only British example 

 I feel quite sure of as to the name, although specimens from 

 Sutherland seem closely allied to it. 



C. PANICEA L., var. tamidula Laest. Loc. Parall. PL 283 (1839). 

 I have specimens from Glen Carron, W. Eoss, gathered by Mr. 

 Sewell, which I believe are to be referred here ; the fruits are sub- 

 rotund, and the nut large and violet-coloured. This is not caused 

 by being ergotized, as so many fruits are of panicea, I think more 

 so than any other British Carex. 



C. piLULiFEEA L., ft. lonyihracteata Lange, Dansk. FL G9-1 (1861). 

 C. inlulifera var. Lcesii Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1881, 97, t. 218. 

 C. saxumbra Lees in Science Gossip, 1880, 278. Dr. Lange having 

 said that his plant is the same as Dr. Lees's, it must bear his name. 



C. VERNA Chaix. In Loud. Cat. ed. 8, a var. capitata Ar. Benn. 

 was introduced ; it was excluded from the 9th as it seemed only a 

 monstrosity; it was gathered in the Mourne Mountains, Ireland, 

 and had much the habit of C. capitata L. 



C. vAGiNATA Tausch. in Flora, iv. 557 (1821). The form called 

 ft. sparsijiora by Hartmann, Sk. FL ed. 4, 305 (1843), and Lang in 

 Linncca, xxiv. 576 (1851), occurs in several places in Scotland, but 

 it seems scarcely more than a state of vayinata. A similar sparse- 

 flowered and attenuated form occurs in panicea: I have it from 

 Holyhead (J. E. Grifah). 



C. PANICEA L., b. intenitedia (Miog.). C. intermedia Mieg. in IJidL 

 Soc. Dot. Fr. X. 83 (18G3). This comes somewhat between C. pa- 

 nicea and C. voyinata, though nearer the former; it occurred in 

 Scotland, near Fort William {Rev. PL S. Marshall). Nyman most 

 unaccountably makes it a var. of C. vulyaris Fr., and Richter follows 

 him ; but there is no doubt about it being a panicea form ; there 

 are authentic specimens at Kew. Dr. Lange named a specimen 

 sent him "(.'. vayinata Tausch.?" 



C. ATROFuscA Schkr. Car. 1, 106 (1801). C. xistxdata Wahlb. 

 Act. Plolm. 156 (1803). 



C. CAPiLLARis L., var. major. Mr. Ewing gathered C. capillaris 

 var. major {FL Dan. t. 2374, f. 3 ; Blytt, Noryes Flora, 244 (1861)) 

 in Glen Shee, 12-16 in. high. Blytt says "a foot high." In Trans. 



* But Norrlin has " C. vublivida mihi = C. panicea sublivida Hartm," 



