NOTES ON CAREXi 2G3 



= C. nutans Fr. (iioii Host) Nuv. Mant. 1, 19 (1832). It had much 

 the look of the true C. nutans Host. 



C. RosTRATA Stokes in With. Arr. eel. 2, ii. 1059 (1776). 

 C. ampullacea Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 207 (1794). "/3. clatior 

 (Blytt)." The brackets are required because Blytt described his 

 plant under 0. ampullacea in Nonjes Flora, 254 (1861). This is a 

 very tall (3-5 ft.) var. with very long spikes, most of the female 

 ones with male flowers at the apex, broad leaves, flatter than in the 

 type. It is probably the same as C. ampullacea /3. robusta Bonder, 

 Fl. Hamb. 505 (1851). 



C. iNVOLUTA (Bab.). C. vesicaria L., fi. / Involuta Bab. Man. 

 Brit. Dot. ed. 2, 370 (1847). C. ampullacea var. involuta Baker & 

 Hunt in ReiJ. Hot. Ex. Club for 1863, 9 (1864). C. involuta Syme, 

 En(/. Bot. ed. 3, x. 168 (1870). 



C. VESICARIA L., p. (lichroa Fr. Mr. Bailey considers (and Lange 

 agrees) that G. vesicaria dichroa Anders. Gyp. Scand. 18 (1849) is a 

 form of rostrata ; it certainly in its reduced spikes shows an approach 

 to G. rotundata Wahlb. ; it must be called G. rostrata var. dichroa 

 Bailey, Stud, of Carex, 39 (1889), in Mem.. Torrey Bot. Club, No. 1. 



C. VESICARIA X ROSTRATA. X G. Pannewitziana FigQvt ex Nyman. 

 Wood at Inuy, Co. Longford, Ireland, 10/7/83, .S'. A. Stewart. 

 Perthshire, Dr. B. White ; sent me lately by Mr. Barckley. These 

 agree exactly with specimens named as this hybrid, and gathered 

 near Bremen by Prof. Haussknecht. I have many specimens doubt- 

 fully so named by many collectors, but the above plants accord in 

 every point. Mr. Stewart's specimen has much the appearance of 

 G. riparia "^^ gracilescens C. Hartm. = G. riparia X vesicaria Siegcrt, 

 with the exception of the male spikes. 



C. PULLA Good. Tram. Linn. Soc. 3, t. 14, 78 (1797). Var. 

 Grahami Hook. & Arnott, Brit. Fl. ed. 8, 510 (1860). = G. Grohami 

 Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 215 (1843). 



In addition to the Floras of Britain, the following may be con- 

 sulted as throwing some light on our Carices : — 



"On some British Carices." McLaren in Botanical Gazette, iii. 

 17-27 (1851). 



Priestley on Garex, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. iv. 71 (1853). 



For full synonymy of our species see Richter, Plantcc European, 

 145-171 (1890). 



A list of European Carices will be found in this Journal for 

 1885, pp. 260-26G. 



It is greatly to be regretted that Dr. Boott's splendid worl^ on 

 the Carices has never been completed ; unpublished material exists 

 for it at Kew. 



In Vet. Ak. llandl. 141 (1803) {Act. Holm.) Wahlcnberg describes 

 a Garex simpliciusrula from "Westmorland, Anglia." Sprengel put 

 this to Kobresia cariciva Willd., and Kunth quoted Sprengel; by the 

 kindness of Dr. Almquist I am able to say this is correct, as ho has 

 examined the specimen for me in the Heib. Vet. Ak. Stockholm. 



In conclusion I would say, if any British botanist goes to Kew 



