530 CYPERACEAE 



Top. Bot. 438. Syme, E. B. x. 48, t. 1583. Baxt. t. 308, from an 



Oxfordshire plant. Fl. Oxf. 318-9. Nyman, 763. 

 Native. Paludal. Marshy meadows. Very local, but common where 



it occurs. P. June- August. 

 First record. Schoonus comjjressus. Plentiful about Newbuiy, Mr. 

 Bicheno, Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 2. Ock. Bhjsnius compressiis. In a boggy place between South 

 Hinksey and the Abingdon Road, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 308. [Very 

 rare, if still existing.] Abundant in the saline meadow at 

 Marcham. On Abingdon Racecourse, and in fields between it 

 and Marcham. 



4. Kennet. Plentiful about Newbury, M): Bicheno. In meadows 



between Newbury and Hampstead Marshall. Bagnor Marsh. 

 Near Chilton Foliat I gathered specimens fifteen inches high. 



5. caricis is recorded for all the bordering counties except Bucks. 



EKIOPHORUM, Linn. Gen. n. 63. 



[E. VAGINATUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 52 (1753), et Herb. Hare's-tail Rush. 



Syme, E. B. x. 71, t. 1604. Is recorded for Surrey and Hants, but is extinct 

 in Oxfordshire, and requires confii'ming for E. Gloucestershire.] 



[E. GRACiLE, Koch in Roth, Cat. ii. 259 (1799). 



Syme, E. B. x. 74, t. 1606. Has been found in Surrey and Hants ; it may 

 yet reward the searcher on the boggy places of the Bagshot Sands in Berk- 

 shire.] 



E. ang-ustifolium, Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. i. 24 (1788), and N. Beitr. 



i. 94. Cotton Ghass. 



Gramen Tomentarium, Ger. Em. 29. E . poJystachion, Linn. Herb., and 



Sm. Engl. Fl. i. 67. 

 Top. Bot. 447. Syme, E. B. x. 73, t. 1605. Nyman, 76T. FL Oxf. 318. 

 Native. Uliginal. Bogs, marshes. Local, but widely distributed in 



the heathy districts. P. April-June. 

 First record. Bulmarsh Heath, Mr. S. Budge hi Herh. Brit. Mus. 1800. 



E. angvstifoHum, without locality in Russell's Cat. 1839 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Frilford. Abingdon. Cothill. Boar's Hill. 



3. Pang. Cold Ash Common. 



4. Kennet. Greenhum Common, Rupert Jones. Burghfield meadows, 



Tufnail. Snelsmore. Aldermaston. Near Thatcham. In the 

 Kennet meadows between Newbury and Hampstead Marshall. 



5. lioddon. Ascot, Wilkin. Crazey Hill, in a meadow near the 



spring, Stanton. Common about Wellington College, Penny. 

 Bulmarsh, Budge. Finchampstead. Near Bracknell. Bagshot 

 Heath. Long Moor. Sunningwell Bog. Sandhurst. Broad- 

 moor. Easthampstead Plain. White Moor Bog. Coleman's Moor. 

 E. angusiifoUum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



