362 Mr A. Bennett on Carex helvola in Scotland. 



dietribution. It is also given for the " Eocky Mountains" 

 with a query, in Mr Bailey's list of North American Carices ; 

 but it is not contained in a very complete set of Canadian 

 Carices I owe to the kindness of Professor ]\[acoun : — 



Carex helcola, Blytt, in Fries' Kya Botaniska Notiser, 



1849, p. 58. 

 Andersson, Scand. Cyperacece., p. 61. 

 Blytt, Norges Flora, p. 188-9, and Supp., p. 1254. 

 Hartman, Handhoh i Skan Flora^ ed. 11 (L879), pp. 



471-2. 

 Nyman, Conspectus FlorcB Europceoe, p. 778. 

 Flora Danica, Supp., t. xxxii. 

 Herh. Normale, f. xiii. n. 85. 



Carex tetrastoxhya, Transt. ap. Saut in Flora, 34 (1850). 

 Norway. North and Middle Sweden. Finland. Silesia. 



Tyrol. 



In habit the plant is not unlike C. micros fachya, Ehr., 



connecting in some degree the aspect of C. lagopina, 

 C. aljncola, and C. heleonastes. 



The growth of the rhizome is very characteristic, and ff 

 gathered with good roots, that alone is a good distinguish- 

 ing character. 



It must be remembered that Professor Balfour gathered 

 this three years before Blytt described the species, and 

 that of British plants alpicola was the nearest in aspect. 



I trust that any botanist that visits Lochnagar this 

 coming summer will search carefully for tlie plant ; which 

 should be looked for about the corrie of Loch-an-ean, in the 

 neighbourhood of which C. lagopina grows. I would 

 suggest also that likely localities are Ben-muic-Dhui, Beu 

 Avon, Braemar, Ben-a-Buid, and perhaps Cairngorm, 



