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shire, and nowhere with us reaches that abundance which it does upon moorlands. 
13. Carex glauca, Scop. Fourteen Districts. This is perhaps the most 
universally distributed of all the family, both over Britain, and (certainly) in 
Herefordshire. Being the most cominon it is also the least liked—for it forms the 
ill-famed ‘carnation grass,” upon which our farmers vent some of their feelings 
in these years of depression and loss. I need not point out to naturalists the 
mistake underlying this prejudice ; but will only go on to say that, being the most 
common, it is also one of the prettiest of all. The pinky tinge of its hanging 
spikelets, crowned when in flower with their three white stigmas, blends with the 
glaucous blue of its short foliage to give it all the grace which marks, unseen, our 
most common plants. It can hardly fail to become a favourite of any lover of 
nature. 
14. Carex digitata, Z. One District. Our three greatest Sedge-rarities, 
digitata, montana, and humilis, all come together in the catalogue just as they all 
grow close together upon the Doward hills. This wellmamed plant, the ingered 
Sedge, is quite unlike any other of the Herefordshire species, or indeed of the 
British, with the exception of the recently discovered ornithopoda, Willd. It is 
very abundant in the dry limestone woods of the Dowards ; and it occurs also (still 
upon limestone) on the Coppet Hill, and in small quantities (on sandstone, but 
with other limestone plants,) at Caplar. All these stations are in the Ross 
District. 
15. Carex humilis, Zeyss. One District. This rare plant was discovered 
upon one of the bare points of limestone rock on the Great Doward, I believe by 
Mr. A. T. Wilmott, some years ago. Since that time, one other similar point of 
rock has been added; but to these two points, i.c., three or four square yards, it 
is, as far as yet known, confined. It is thus certainly the rarest we possess in our 
Flora, and affords a curious instance how a plant may battle on successfully in a 
position where circumstances give it some slight vantage ground in the struggle 
for existence. Had it not entrenched itself on these two rock points, where it is 
raised up several yards higher than the surrounding ground, it would, no doubt, 
long ago have succumbed to the overgrowth of the brushwood, under the shade of 
which it appears not to be able to exist. May it long continue to hold its castles, 
unconquered either by nature or man ! 
16. Carex montana, Z. One District. This also is confined to a single 
locality ; but, unlike the last, it is fairly abundant in the dry limestone woods of 
the Greater Doward. Its remarkable and unmistakable fruit is in some seasons 
rather rare, and the plant is not very easily recognizable by its leaves. But the 
large, tough, creeping root-stock, is a point by which it is always easily known. 
Its discoverer in Herefordshire was, I believe, the Rev. W. H. Purchas. Of the 
three plants just enumerated, C. digitata is abundant on the west Gloucester side 
of the river gorge at the Dowards ; the other two, humilis and montana have not 
yet, I believe, been discovered there. 
17. Carex pilulifera, Z. Six Districts. These Districts are a very in- 
adequate number to represent the distribution in Herefordshire of this common 
Sedge. It is most probably often passed over as a variety of C. precox, from which 
