354 CYPERACE^. 



VI. Ivybridge ; Keys, ih. Western Beacon. On Dartmoor, about 

 the Erme Valley. 



757. C. distans, L. Distant-spiked Sedge. 



Native ; about springs and on damp rocks by the coast, and in 

 muddy or marshy spots by tidal waters. Common. May, June, 

 c. I. By the shore between Seaton Sands and Crafthole ; Pascoe, Phyt. 

 ii. 943 ; seen here, and between Seaton and Hessenford. 

 Wivelscombe. 

 II. In grassy places on the rocks by Whitsand Bay. St. Johns. 

 D. III. Blaxton ! ; Holmes, Keys, Fl. iii. 264. By Weston Mills Lake. 

 IV. Staddon Cliffs ; Keys, ih. Between Mount Batten and Jenny 



Cliff. Longbridge. 

 V. Rocky shore between Bovisand and Wembury. In the cre\ices 

 of damp rocks near Stoke Point, also near Worsewell, and 

 below the church, Revelstoke. 

 VI. Marsh near Orcherton. 

 First record : Pascoe, 1847. 



758. C. punctata, Gaud. Dotted-fruited Sedge. 



Native ; in damp grassy spots on maritime rock. Very rare. 

 June. 

 D. V. On the lower part of a slaty cliff by the shore of Bigbury Bay ; 

 rather sparingly, and -nlth the exception of one plant all grow- 

 ing withm the compass of a few yards ; occurring with C. 

 extensa, Arundo Phragmitis, and other coarse vegetation, not 

 much above liigh-water mark. C. distans in the neighbour- 

 hood, but not intermixed. Discovered in July, 1875. 

 The leaves of C. punctata are rather broader than those of distans ; 

 stems stiffer and straighter ; glumes of female spikes lighter and greener ; 

 the most obvious differences however are m the female spikes and fruit. 



First record : Briggs, 1875, in Jour. Bot. iv. N. S. 295 ; also first for 

 Devon. 



759. C. fulva, Good. Tawny Sedge. 



Native ; in peaty bogs and swampy places. Very rare and ex- 

 tremely local. May, June. 

 0. I. Abunuant in bogs and swampy places on Viverdon Down ; also 



in one or two enclosures below the down. 

 D. (IV. h. sp)eirostachya, Sm. Bickleigh Down ; Keys, Fl. iii. 263 : no 

 doubt an error ; there were no bogs or swampy places on this 

 now enclosed common.) 

 The Viverdon Down plant seems intermediate between the so-called 

 vars. genuina and speirostachya. 



