74 NOTES OX SOME BKITISH SEDGES. 



thence southward and westward from Central Kussia through the 

 Salzkammergut, Switzerland, and S.E. France to Spain; heing, 

 therefore, not unlikely to occur in almost any part of the British 

 Isles where suitable conditions prevail. It is easily overlooked, 

 nnd should be detected elsewhere in tliis country, if searched for. 

 There are specimens in the British Museum or at Kew from Iceland, 

 Lapland, Fhimark, N.W. Russia, N.E. and N.W. Germany, Sweden, 

 Norway, Denmark, Tirol, Salzburg, Bavaria, and France ; also 

 from four stations in New York State, U.S.A. I find no obvious 

 differences between them. 



The species was first published (1780) in Phytophylacium 

 Eluliartiamim, a scarce work containing dried plants, accom- 

 panied by short notes, in the following terms : — 



" 77. Chordorrhiza. 



Carex Chordorrhiza L. Upsalise." 



This, in the opinion of Messrs. Britten and Hiern, must stand as 

 the true name ; the affixed specimen is quite characteristic. Ehr- 

 liart, in the preface (dated October, 1779), dedicated his book 

 " Cineribus Caroli a Linne " ; the natural inference being that the 

 elder Linne had seen the sedge in question and given it that name. 



The second notice dates from 1781, in the Sujqjl. PL (Linn, fil.), 

 p. 414 : — " (Jhurdorrhiza : Carex spica composita : spiculis andro- 

 gynis approximatis superne masculis, capsulis compressis, radice 

 repente filiformi. Chordorrhiza. EJirh. plujtoph. n. 77. Habitat in 

 Suecia. Ehrhart.'' On one or two of the older botanists' labels 

 I see that it is actually called " C. chordorrhiza, L." ; and there 

 seems to be no good reason for crediting Ehrharb with a name 

 which he never claimed to have originated. 



0. MURicATA L. var. pseudo-divulsa Syme. A sheet of this plant 

 from Hurtmoor, near Godalming, Surrey, not far distant from 

 Frith Hill, the station for examples in Herb. Boswell-Syme col- 

 lected by Mr. Beeby, and agreeing exactly with them, was sent to 

 Herr Kiikenthal with the enquiry whether they were true var. 

 virens Koch. His reply was: '' Carex LeersiiF. Schultz ((7. virejis 

 Koch est inextricabilis !)." On looking up a type-specimen in 

 Herb. Brit. Mus., I found the identification to be quite correct ; 

 this was issued in F. Schultz and Winter's Herbarium Xormale, 

 Phanerogamia Cent. 2, no. 173, labelled: " Carex Leersii, F. Schultz. 

 Lieux pierreux sur les bords des vignes des cotes du muschelkalk et 

 du calcaire tertiaire pres de Weissenburg en Alsace. Dec. et rec. 

 F. Schultz. fl. 6 mai 1871, fr. 3 juin 1869. C. muricata Hoppe 

 Car. Germ, et, pro parte, C. nmricata Lin. sp. 1382 ; C. canescens 

 Leers herb., t. 14, f. 3." 



I append a translation from the original notice in Flora for 

 1870, vol. liii. pp. 455, 459 :— 



"Under C. muricata L., C. virens Lam. ^iwdi C. divulsa Good, 

 were described as var. /3. and y. But, as F. Schultz has shown, 

 various species were confounded under C. muricata, viz. C. con- 

 tigua Hoppe {C. muricata Koch et auct.), C. muricata L. (Hoppe, 

 C. Leersii F. Schultz, C. virens auct. nonnul. non Lam.), C. Paira>,i 



