202 Mr Arthur Bennett on the 



having occasion to go through my Carices for our proposed 

 Flora of Surrey, which my friend Mr Beeby is engaged on, 

 this specimen came under careful examination, with the 

 result, after comparison with foreign specimens, that it was a 

 form of G. salina. Being at Kew a few days after, I showed 

 the specimen to Professor Oliver and Mr J. G. Baker, 

 but neither seemed inclined to say it was salina, or was 

 not ; and as I myself hesitated under what subspecies or 

 variety of this variable species to place it, I felt afraid of a 

 mistake. On my return home I again subjected it to careful 

 examination, and felt convinced it was salina. To make 

 sure, I enclosed it in a letter to Dr Almquist (who wrote 

 the account of this section of the genus for Hartraann's 

 Scandinavian Flora, 11th ed.); he returned it named as 

 above, naturally using his own nomenclature ; Nyman, in 

 his Conspectus Florce Europece, places it as a subspecies 

 under C. hoeriiatolcpis, Dreyer. It is of course not the place 

 here to discuss the limits of the species or subspecies that 

 are X-*laced under or near saliiia ; to those interested I 

 would refer to able remarks by Dr J. Lange, in his 

 Conspectus Floroe Groenlandicce, 1880; to Dr Almquist, I.e.; 

 and to Blytt in his Norges Flora. I give the distribution 

 of the species and the variet}', and a short description : — 



Carex salina, Wahlnbg., in Fl. Lapp, and Vet, Ak., 1803. 



It should here be said, that under this name I take a 

 very broad view of the species, on purpose to better show 

 its distribution. 



Iceland ! Faroe Isles, Spitzbergen, N, Zembla, Arctic 

 Russia, Lapland ! Norway ! Sweden ! Greenland ! British 

 North America, United States. 



Of y8 Kattegatensis — 



Norway ! Sweden, provinces of Bohnsliin ! and 

 Halland. Scotland — Wick, River Caithness. 



Stems in Caithness specimen 18 inches high, with broad 

 membranous sheaths to the lower part of the leaves ; 

 leaves finch wide, with the central nerve whitish, prominent, 

 and very conspicuous. Female spikes 2-3, 2 inches long 

 the lower glumes with long aristate points, and usuall 

 3-nerved (but exceedingly variable), much longer than the 

 fruit. Male spikes 2-4, the lowest usually with female 



