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that it would appear confined to " dry mountain pastures, heaths 

 and moors " (Hooker & Arnott) ; " dry pastures and moors " 

 (J. D. Hooker) ; " dry places and heaths " (Babington) ; " dry 

 heaths and hilly pastures " (Bentham) ; " barren pastures " 

 (Wood's Tourist's Flora). Smith in English Botany, ed. 2, says 

 " spongy bogs on sandy mountainous ground " ; and in the 

 Botany of Worcestershire (1909) the word bogs is given with 

 heaths and heathy pastures ; but even that most accurate observer 

 Mr. J. W. White says, in his Flora of Bristol, merely " downs, 

 heaths and dry hills ; rather rare." On August 4th I came across 

 many fine specimens of this grass, some were more than two feet 

 high, in a marshy meadow of mowing grass, on the peat moor 

 between Portishead and Clevedon ; and earlier in the season I 

 saw smaller examples on the central Somerset peat moor near 

 Ashcot. The former were so tall, and w^ith so many more spike- 

 lets than usual (frequently 8-11) that, until I noticed the hgule 

 composed of a tuft of hairs, the grass puzzled me, and hence a 

 series of specimens was gathered. Except in size and the more 

 numerous spikelets and branched panicles the plants seem 

 normal. On the Continent the secondary habitat, viz. marshy, 

 not boggy, ground, seems to have been noticed more. For 

 example, Coste {Flore de la France) says, " Landes et paturages 

 siliceux humides " ; Schinz & Keller {Flore de la Suisse) say, 

 " Bords des bois, pres maigres, paturages et prairies marcca^e?t5es ; 

 surtout dans la region montagneuse sur terrains pauvres en cal- 

 eaire." Koch {Synoi:)sis, ed. 2, 1844) merely says, " In pratis, 

 pascuis, ericetis, sylvarum locis denudatis." — H. S. Thompson. 



Carex rariflora (pp. Ii5, 211). — Mr. L. Gumming has sent 

 me his specimen, gathered on Ben Lawers in August, 1899, for 

 examination. It is in good fruit, and is thoroughly typical C. 

 rariflora (not, as I suggested, C. atrofusca). — Edward S. 

 Marshall. 



JuNCUS TENUIS IN Kerry. — I fouud this plant in small 

 quantity by the road side at Parknasilla, Co. Kerry, in August last. 

 — James Britten. 



REVIEWS. 



Report 071 the Botany of the Wollaston ExpeditioJi to Dutch Neio 

 NeiD Guinea, 1912-13, by Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., assisted 

 by Messrs. E. G. Baker, S. Moore, H. F. Wernham, C. H. 

 Wright, and others. With an Introduction by Mr. G. Boden 

 Kloss, Assistant Director of the Museum at Kuala Lzmijmr, 

 Federated Malay States. 



This valuable contribution to our know^ledge of the flora of New 

 Guinea was issued in August as the first part of Volume IX of the 

 Transactions (Botany) of the Linnean Society, and contains an 

 account of the collection of plants made during the expedition 

 conducted by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston. The collection is exceed- 



