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The Flora which consists of 118 pages and a sketch map of 
the region includes a covering letter from Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, 
Director of the Botanical Survey of South Africa, to the Secre- 
tary for Agriculture and a commendatory Preface by Mr. F. B, 
Smith, Secretary for Agriculture. 
he publication of so useful a memoir by the Government of 
the Union of South Africa affords welcome evidence of the en- 
lightened view held by. that Government of the value of science 
and also indicates that they realise fully the need of acquiring an 
intimate knowledge of the resources of the country by the de- 
velopment and proper application of scientific metho 
Attention may be called to the only error we have noticed ; 
Aizoaceae on p. 52 should be placed above the genus Limeum 
Carex riparia, var. gracilis, in Britain.—In July, 1914, Mr. 
E. Thurston, C.1I.E., who lately presented his fine herbarium of 
Cornish plants to Kew (see K.B., 1920, p. 44), collected an inter- 
esting sedge in the Gunwalloe Valley, Cornwall. After careful 
investigation it has been concluded ae or earliest name applic- 
able to this plant is Carex riparia, Cur r. 8 gracilis, Coss. et 
Germ., Flore de Paris, 1845, p. 605, whi ae following descrip- 
tion is given : iges presque lisses sur les angles. Feuilles 
souvent vertes. Epis males solitaires ou géminés. Epis femelles 
laxiflores, longuement pédonculés, souvent pendants. Utricles 
longuement dépassés par les écailles. Ecailles tres longuement 
cuspidées-aristées.—A. R.—Endroits maré cageux ombragés.— 
Corbeil! Mennecy! La cour de France! ete. 
The variety is kept up by Husnot, ‘‘Cypéracées de France,’ 
p. 54 (1905-06), but Rouy et Foucaud, Fl. de France, vol. fa, 
p- 486 (1912) make it a synonym of var. “gracilescens, Hartm., ap. 
Anderss., sub-var. aristata, Rouy et Fouc. Carex riparia, var. 
gracilescens, Hartm., as been considered by some authors the 
brid C. Ar x vescicaria (see J. G. Laurell in Allg. Bot. 
iscens for what is Soames the same variety. 
In the Kew Herbarium a specimen from the Isle of Wight, 
collected by Dr. Bromfield in a wet salt marsh, at the mouth of 
the Wootton creek between Ryde and Cowes, in May, 1846, has 
long peduncles to the female spikes and acuminate pinta longer 
than the utricles, and must be referred to the var. gracilis, Coss. 
et Germ. It is somewhat abnormal in having androgynous spikes. 
Lastly, a plant referred to in the io ap for 1915 of the 
The following information is there oi “Carex riparia, 
forma. Tickenham Moor, N. Séihenile vie 6, June 5, 1915 
TO n open rhine, free from shade.’’—Miss Ida M 
gc in a 
SaaS ees, for its ty long _ peduncles and 
i teresting 
