5^4 CYPERACEAE 



4. Kennet. RusseU's Cat. 1839. Mortimer, Tufnail. West Ilsley. 



Lower Bucklebury. Greenham Common. Silchester. Alder- 

 maston. Hampstead Marshall. Crookham Heath. Wickham. 

 Burghfield. Newbury Wash Common. Snelsmore, abundant. 

 Tilcombe. 



5. Loddon. Virginia Water, i7er&. Ox/. 1868. Bracknell. Welling- 



ton College Grounds. Sandhurst. Ambarrow. Long Moor. 



Finchampstead. Farley Hill. Bagshot. Ascot. Windsor 



Park. Warren Row Common. Stubbing's Heath. 



At Mortimer it occurred with a long acute glume, near to var, 



longebracteata, Lange (1864), but not identical with the var. Leesii, 



Ridley. Mr. Tufnail tells me this form is not uncommon at Bearwood. 



C. piluUfera is recorded for all the bordering counties except East 



Gloucestershire. 



C. verna, Chaix in Vill. Hist. PL Dauph. i. 312 ^1787). 



C. praecox, Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 23, t. 446 (1778), not of Schreber Spic. 



Fl. Lips. 63 (1771). C. montana, Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. 551, not of 



Linn. C. saxatiUs, Huds. Fl. Angl. 408, not of Linn. 



Top. Bot. 468. Syme, E. B. x. 129, t. 1655. Nj-man, 773. Fl. Oxf. 325. 



Native. Pascual. Meadows, heaths, chalk downs, &c. Rather 



common and widely distributed. P. April-May. 

 First record. C. Praecox, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809, 

 C. verna is found in all the bordering counties. 



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[C. TOMENTOSA, Linii. Mant. i. 123 (1767), not of Lightfoot. 



Syme, E. B. x. 130, t. 1656. Is found in meadows, &c., in Gloncestersliire 

 and Wiltshii-e, veiy near to tlie Berkshire border, and may yet be foimd in 

 the western part of the Isis distiict.] 



C. pallescens, Linn. Sp. PI. 977 (1753) and Herb. 23. Pale Sedge. 

 Top. Bot. 461. Syme, E. B. x. 132, t. 1657. Nyman, 774. Fl. Oxf. 326. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Moist woods and shady places, chiefly in clayey 



soil. Local and rather rare. P. May. 

 First record. ^ C. palescens. Dr. Noehden,' Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Wytham Wood, Newton Young in Walk. Fl. 



2. Ock. Bagley and Boar's Hill, Boswell. 



3. Pang. Oarebury Hill Wood. Oai-e Wood. 



4. Kennet. Near Shaw, Jackson. Wood near Enborne. Moi-timer. 



Common over a considerable wooded area between Kintbury 

 and Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. [Wellington Coll. list ^everywhere' is, of course, an 



error. The plant observed was probably C. flacca.] Hurst, 

 Melvill. 

 Our plants are the var. undulata (Kunze, in Schkuhr, Riedgr. 

 Suppl. 23, n. 8, as a species , which has the lowest bract transversely 



