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from the moorland between the Little Culrannoch and Glen Can- 

 ness and from the Driesh, Clova, Forfarshire, as well as from the 

 base of the Sow of Athole, Perthshire. These are good examples 

 of our alpine form, with which I am quite familiar. He replied : 

 " Hgec est C. canescens var. robustior Blytt.-;;-C'. alpicola Wahl. = 

 C. Persounii Lang niulto gracilior, spiculis magis approximatis, 

 minoribus subrotundis, foliis angastioribus diversa." On com- 

 parison with Blytt's specimens in Fries's Herb. Normale at Kew 

 and South Kensington, labelled " C. canescois, var. robusta," 

 I find them to correspond exactly with the so-called alpicola of 

 Britain; they come from " Norvegia Voss in alpe Graasiden, supra 

 limitem Betulfe." 



0. Boeckeler [Die Cijperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu 

 Berlin) gives as synonyms of C. alpicola Wahlenberg, Flora Lap- 

 ponica, 232, C. Gebhardii Hoppe, non Schkuhr (Schkuhr's plant 

 appears to be C. elo7ir/ata L., in part at least), C. Persoonii Sieber 

 ("v. e/'), C. vittlis Fr. and C. vwcilenta Fr., &c. Nyman keeps 

 C. macilenta as a distinct species, and places C vitilis under 

 C. Persoonii as a subspecies. There is an authentic specimen of 

 C. Persoonii in Herb. Gay at Kew, marked " Sieber misit, 1821 ". 

 Sieber says on the label: '' curta. /3. bramiescens Persoon in 

 alpibus tyrolensibus ad M. Glokner ; differt a C. ciirta." This 

 agrees exactly with C. Gebhardii Hoppe, of which I have seen two 

 authentic examples and the figure in Caricologia Germanica — an 

 exceedingly good one. Fries identifies his C. vitilis with Wahlen- 

 berg's alpicola and with " C. Gebhardi nonnull. nee Schkuhr." 

 The figure of vitilis in Flora Danica evidently represents C. Per- 

 soonii ; but I am somewhat doubtful whether the specimens of 

 Fries in his Herb. Normale are quite the same thing — both at Kew 

 and Brit. Mus. the material is poor and scanty, and I incline to 

 believe that the plant is somewhat uncharacteristic C. Persoonii. 

 Whether or no C. Persoonii and 0. vitilis are distinct, neither of 

 them seems to have yet occurred in this country. 



C. ovALis Good. var. bragteata Syme. I have specimens under 

 this name from Castle Moreton Common, Worcestershire, collected 

 by Mr. Hanbury, and Cutt Mill Common, Puttenham, Surrey, 

 gathered by me. " We should call these var. capitata Sonder." — 

 G. K. The presence or absence of a foliaceous bract is apparently 

 a character of no value in this species ; a specimen found near Tain 

 (last August) by Mr. Shoolbred and myself has one spike bracteate, 

 the other not. 



C. RiGiDA Good. var. inferalpina Laestadius. Herr Kiikenthal 

 confirms plants so named from the Little Culrannoch {legit Han- 

 bury) and from the great bog on Glas Maol above Canlochan Glen, 

 Forfarshire ; they are, I think, inseparable from the specimens in 

 Fries, Herb. Normale. C. limula Fries, to which (I believe) Mr. 

 Bennett has lately been disposed to assign these gatherings, is 

 considered by the German student to be C. rigida x vulgaris, and he 

 has so named a sedge gathered by me on the high ground between 

 Clova and Loch Lee ; but it does not appear whether he has seen 

 a type-specimen of C. limula. 1 cannot believe that those who are 



