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shows, as the elevation, etc., increases, they become dwarfer, 
and with other lessened characters. He mentions with 
great approval Lestadius’s “Loca Parral. plant. in Suecia 
boreali observatiis.”. This work, written in 1832, was not 
published until 1839. It is written in Latin, and contains 
a vast number of notes upon the variation of plants as 
induced by climate, etc. Much in both these papers are of 
value even to-day. 
C. ampullacea brunnescens, And—<The halm, seldom 
exceeding 2 feet in height, is quite obtuse, clothed below 
with conspicuous reddish scales; the leaves lighter than 
usual and shorter; f. spikes shorter, of a high brown 
colour, especially noticeable after pressure. The utricles 
are Jess inflated, with few indistinct nerves. Male spikes 
always two.” Andersson, l.c. 
C. vesicaria alpigena “acquires a shorter but more 
robust halm, clothed by broad-keeled leaves, with triangular 
summits as long as the halm, and surrounded below by dry 
sheaths. Usually two female spikes, rarely three or one, 
the lowest stalked all erect, 1 inch long, with brown or 
blackish shining scales; stigmas three.” 
C. vesicaria dichroa.—“The halm is about 2 feet long, 
somewhat curved at the base, the leaves attenuated towards 
the point, f. spikes more or less lax, the lowest almost always 
nodding, glistening from the scales, which are scarious at the 
edges and points; male spikes mostly two.” Andersson, l.c. 
C. rostrata, var. sparganifolius, Murray, Scotland 
(Druce) in “ Das Pflanzenreich,’ 1910. 
C. rostrata x vesicaria, Figart, 1887. 
xC. Pannewitziana, Figart (1887).— Ascherson and 
Graebner, “Syn. Fl. M. Europ.” (1903), 213, refer C. Friesii, 
Blytt, to this, but the specimens of this I have seen seem 
to me different. 
I have this from Perth, gathered by Dr B. White; and 
Rey. E. S. Marshall gathered it in Glen Callater. (Bennett, 
No. 15.) 
Herr Kiikenthal uses C. Hudsonii, A. Benn. (for C. 
stricta, Smith, non Lamarck), instead of C. elata, Allioni. 
There is no specimen in Allioni’s herbarium, and there is 
some doubt whether the name applies to stricta, Sm. or 
acuta, L. 
