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NOTES ON SOME BRITISH SEDGES. 



plate, description, or accompanying voucher-specimen. But the 

 matter is of no practical importance, Retz having given a diagnosis 

 as early as 1779, in Florce Scandinavm Prodromns, p. 179 : — 



"1035. C. Ofderi, spicis subquaternis sessilibus capsulis globosis 

 acutis. Fl. D. 371. P. ar." [Pascua arenosa] . 



" Obs. Synonyma ab 111. Oedero allata minime hue pertinent. 

 FlavcB proxima, tamen distincta ; csespitose crescit, omnia minora, 

 spicula mascula etiam sessili. Spica infima quidem bracteam habet, 

 sed parvam. Capsule minime recnrvae. Prope Holmiam solo glareoso 

 legi." This can, I believe, only cover C. (Jederi, auct. plurim., and 

 does not tally with C.Jiava var. minor Townsend. 



My impression is that most of the specimens labelled " C. Oederi'' 

 by the older botanists belong to this species ; but I am not at present 

 in a position to prove it. However, I believe that the majority of 

 authors were right, and that Mr. Bailey is wrong. In any case, 

 var. ci/peroides Marsson cannot stand as a synonym for C. Oederi 

 auct. In his Flora von Neu-rorpommerii, Pdlgenuncl Usedoni, Marsson 

 arranges aggregate C. fiava thus : — 



"A. genuiiia. u vulgaris DoW. 



fS lepidocarpa (Tausch). 

 y Marssoni (Auersw.). 

 "B. Oederi (EWiYh.). 



a elatior (Anderss.). 

 f3 vulgaris. 

 y cyperoides Marss." 

 Var. cyperoides is therefore only a portion, and that not even the 

 normal form, of this major variety or subspecies, as he under- 

 stands it. 



Var. elatior Andersson. Herr Kiikenthal refers to this (he is 

 also responsible for the other varietal identifications) a specimen 

 from ^Vest Morden, Dorset, sent me by Rev. R. P. Murray mixed 

 with good C. lepidocarpa Tausch, as well as a gathering of mine 

 (no. 763) from near Loch Ussie, E. Ross. Marsson characterizes 

 it as " caule gracili stricto ^-1 pedali ; foliis angustissimis canalicu- 

 lato-involutis caule brevioribus vel eum sequantibus." 



Var. cyperoides Marsson. Western shore of Longh Owel, Co. 

 Westmeath, Ireland ; a strong, very tufted plant with broad, flat, 

 mostly somewhat curved leaves. 



Var. cedocarpa Andersson. Glen Nevis, W. Inverness. This 

 approaches y/(U'ft, minor. 



C. RosTRATA Stolvcs. In 1895 Mr. Shoolbred and I found a very 

 robust form of this species (my no. 1478, approaching Mr. Praeger's 

 Irish 0. rhynchopliysa) plentifully about Cong, both in Galway and 

 Mayo; and a few days later I gathered exactly the same thing near 

 Lough Drin, Co. Westmeath (my no. 1426), in the company of 

 Messrs. Linton and our lamented host, Mr. H. C. Levinge. The 

 second plant was referred by Mr. Bennett to C. ampullacea, forma 

 planifolia Norman, Fl. Arct. Norvegiae. "An older name for this 

 variety is var. latifolia Aschers." — G. K. It seems to me worthy 

 of varietal distinction. 



