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never myself found except within the influence of salt water. Still it should be 
looked out for in Herefordshire. 
29. Carex hirta, LZ. ‘“ Hammer Sedge.” Thirteen Districts. This fine 
Sedge is widely spread, but hardly abundant in the county. It is a meadow plant, 
and seems to grow both in dry and wet localities. 
30. Carex Pseudo-cyperus, Z. Five Districts. This beautiful plant 
is locally abundant. It is one of the truly lowland species, loving the brink of 
stagnant water; ditch, pool, or canal. Itis known in several localities in the 
Ross District, in the meadow ditches of the Wye; but along the brink of the river 
itself I never found it. It is abundant on the canal bank, near Shelwick. While 
no British Sedge can touch C. pendula for grandeur, this equals or exceeds it in 
grace. 
31. Carex paludosa, Good. Nine Districts. This, with the next, forms 
a great part of the larger Sedge vegetation of the brink of slow streams and pools 
Tn such situations it is acommon plant. Large tracts of Sedge occur in undrained 
meadow land with little or no fructification, which I believe belong to this species. 
32. Carex riparia, Curt. Eight Districts. The habits and county dis- 
tribution of this seem identical with the last. Riparia is however both the less 
common plant and less abundant where it does occur. It is the larger of the two; 
and, especially when the fruit is ripe, is a very handsome plant. : 
33. Carex ampullacea, Good. Four Districts. The general distribu- 
tion of the two Bottle Sedges in Britain is reversed in the smaller area of Hereford- 
shire. The present one, which occupies nearly twice as many of the botanical 
districts of the whole island as vescicaria, occupying, in Herefordshire, about half 
the number ofits rival. They have very different habits and preferences ; ampul- 
lacea being far more of a moorland plant, and where it occurs on the lower grounds, 
(as at Coughton Marsh and Mosely Common in Herefordshire), marking the relics 
of former moorland, while vescicaria frequents alluvial meadow-ditches. It is 
curious that these two plants, thus distinct in habit, and generally in look, should 
be closely united by the intermediate C. involuta of Cheshire. 
34. Carex vesicaria, L. Seven or eight Districts. The county records 
of this plant makes it twice as common as the last in Herefordshire, and this is 
probably not at all too high an estimate; the Districts insufficiently explored 
being more likely to yield this plant than its congener. This isa plant of lowland 
meadow ditches, of which, next to Pseudo-cyperus, it is perhaps the greatest orna- 
ment of all the genus, 
