CAREX 



551 



Native. Paludal, &c. Meadows, bogs, ditches, roadsides, heaths, &c., 



by no means restricted to damp situations. P. April-June. 

 First record. C. hirfa, Dr. Noehden, Mavor\s Agr. Berks, 1809. Bagley 

 Wood, 3fr. Baxter, MSS. 1829. 

 C. hiria is too widely spread to need specific localities being enumerated. 

 It occurs on very dry sandy soil at Frilford, and has been found of un- 

 usual size at South Hinksey and Benham. I have not seen the form 

 with glabrous leaf-sheaths, the var. hirfaeformis, Pers. Syn. ii. 547, in 

 Berkshire. 



C. hirta is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



C. Pseudo-cyperus, Linn. Sp. PI. 978 (1753), and Herb. 26. 



Pseudo-cyjjerus, Gerard, Em., 29. 

 Top. Bot. 467. Syme, E. B. x. 163, t. 1675. Nyman, 767. Fl. Oxf. 321. 

 Native. Paludal. Low marshes and margins of stagnant water, sides 



of ditches and ponds. Local. P. May-June. 

 First record. Gramen cyperoides spica pendida hreviore, C. B. P. In comi- 

 tatu . . . Bercheriae . . . reperitur, {Bobart) Morison, Hist. Ox. iii, 

 242, 1699, and Herb. Oxf. 

 2. Ock. Kennington Lane, plentiful. Eadley. 



4. Kennet. Speen Moor, Jackson. Theale, in a marshy place near 



the railway. Southcote, moat side. Plentiful and very fine in 

 Aldermaston Soak, where it formed a noticeable feature in the 

 vegetation. Mortimer West. 



5. Loddon. Ditches near Eton, not uncommon, Gotobed in Bot. 



Guide, 1805. Abundantly in a ditch at the foot of Cookham 

 Down by the nearest pond, Mill. Near Wellington College, 

 Penny. Near Sandford Mill, Salmon. Between Wellington 

 College and Wokingham. Near Wokingham. Hurst. Whistley 

 Green. In several places about Sandford Mill. At Embrooke 

 Mill near Wokingham. 

 C. Pseudo-cyperus, which is one of our most beautiful sedges, is recorded 

 for all the bordering counties except E. Gloucestershire. 



C. acutiformis, Ehrh, Cal. No. 30, 1791, and Beitr. iv. (1788) 43. 

 C. paludosa. Good. 1. c. 202, 1792. C. acutu, Curt. Fl. Lond. iv. t. 281, 

 not of Linn. 



Top. Bot. 470. Syme, E. B. x. 165, t. 1678. Nyman, 768. Fl. Oxf. 322. 



Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers, ponds, and ditches, marshes, and 

 wet places in woods. Generally distributed in the valleys of the 

 county, and the most common species by the Kennet. P. May- 

 June. 



First record. C. paludosa. Banks of the river (at Marlow), Mr. G. G. 

 Mill in Phyt. i. 994, 1843. Various forms, which were gathered 

 by the Kennet, were sent^ by the author to the Bot. Exch. Club, 1890. 



