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ERIOPHORUM, Linn. 



829. E. vaginatum, L. Hare's-tail Cotton Grass. 



Native ; in bogs, local. 



S. Plentiful in bogs on Mendip about the Mineries, 

 and very abundant in another bog near the Miners' 

 Arms Inn, also on Mendip. Peat-moor on the 

 southern border of the district. V. VI. 



830. E. polystachion, L. Common Cotton Ch-ass. 



Native ; in bogs and marshes ; of wider distribution 

 than the last. 



S. In all the bogs on Mendip, including the swampy 

 springs on the slopes of Blackdown. East Harp- 

 tree. Pensford. Yatton. Peat-moors in the south. 



V. VI. 



CAREX, Linn. 



831. C. pulicaris, L. 



Native ; in boggy and damp heathy places ; also on 



commons among long grass. 

 G. Alveston. Abundant in some spots on Clifton 



and Dui'dham Downs ; close to the Zooloo-ical 



Gardens, and on the upper slopes of the Gully. 

 S. On Leigh Down, near the reservoir. By the 



stream between the Tanpits and Failand Farm. 



In the fir plantation towards the upper end of 



Cheddar Gorge. On Blackdown, near the Mineries. 



King's Wood, Yatton. V. VI. 



(C. Bavalliana, Sm. " Lansdown, on the slope of a 



hill on which there is a clump of firs, about Ij 



mile from Bath (Mr. E. Forster) ; " Fl. Bathon. 



Now lost.) 



