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scarce in Herefordshire. It is local; and I have never seen it abundant in any of 
its localities. It loves rich wet alluvial soil, where it prefers the sides of ditches 
or drains. Its Herefordshire localities are most of them in the Wye meadows in 
its lower course, where four stations are known for it in the Ross District. Other- 
wise, it is reported in one locality in each of three of the central Districts of the 
county (7, 8, and 9). 
3. Carex paniculata, Z. Five Districts. This is a plant which, 
when well developed, nobody can pass over without at least being aware of its 
presence. It is widely distributed in the county, and is locally abundant, attain- 
ing huge dimensions in favourable localities (as for example, at the Fishpool at 
St. Weonards, and in a boggy thicket near Eaton Bishop). It seems to enjoy a 
more hardy and tougher vitality than most Sedges ; for it clings to stream sides for 
years after the boggy thickets in which it delights have been drained or cultivated ; 
but wherever it is thus found, its presence may be taken for a proof of the former 
existence of bog or marsh. It is one of the finest of the genus; but its grandeur 
is incapable of being represented in herbarium specimens. : 
4. Carex vulpina, Z. It is reported from 12 out of the 14 Districts ; 
and no doubt occurs in them all. It is one of our most common Sedges, occupy- 
ing the position in wet places which its cogeners muricata and divulsa do in dry. 
It is liable to a curious malformation of the fruit (the effect of some insect?) which 
is then produced into a long curved horn. The plant bearing this malformation 
occurs in abundance along the edge of the Hereford Canal. 
5. Carex muricata, LZ. Eight Districts. This Sedge is, in Hereford- 
shire, the constant companion of divulsa. Where one is found, the other is mostly 
not far to seek. They are both of them among the dry-loving Carices ; and they 
are the only two which find their natural home in dry hedgebanks, among Prim- 
roses, Stitchwort, and Wood-violets. Here their slender wiry stems and fruit 
are very pretty, in early summer, and add an element to hedgebank beauty which 
would, without them, be wholly absent. 
6. Carex divulsa, Good. Six Districts. The distribution and habits of 
this are exactly those of the last ; and the two, as far as I have noticed, seem 
equally and commonly distributed in Herefordshire. Its being reported from 
six, while muricata is reported from eight, Districts, must I think be a pure acci- 
dent ; though it agrees, so far as it goes, with the fact that its general distribution 
in Great Britain is not much more than one half (46 as compared with 72 counties) 
that of muricata. The variety of muricata, pseudo-divulsa, I have never picked 
and do not know. I should imagine that it must be a Sedge with the aspect of 
muricata, and the technical characters of divulsa. It should be looked for in 
Herefordshire : and I should be grateful to any botanist who will find it and send 
me specimens. 
7. Carex stellulata, Good. Nine Districts. The habits and distribu- 
tion of this are just those of Carex pulicaris ; and like it, it appears to be a concom- 
itant of poor wet and untouched pasture land. I believe it however (in spite of 
the greater number of Districts reported in its favour), to be really the rarer of 
the two in Herefordshire. It seems to be nowhere individually abundant in its 
