BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH x1 
twenty inches, and in structural features they disclosed 
resemblance to those of their reputed parents, their in- 
floresence being made up of spikelets, crowded and simple 
at the top, and separate and compound at the base, as in 
C. paniculata, while the lower bract invariably exceeded 
it in length, after the habit of C. remota. The latter they 
likewise resembled in manner of growth, springing not 
from stools, but from tufted roots which ramitied through 
the soft, peaty mould. This latter feature set at rest all 
possible doubt as to their being only depauperated 
examples of C. paniculata, many of which had been 
noted there also. 
Two months later, after studying a list of additional 
plants to the fora of Berwickshire, contributed by the late 
Dr. Johnston, Berwick-on-Tweed, in which occurred the 
following note regarding C. levigata—“In the brush- 
wood at the base of Yevering Bell, with C. remota 
et paniculata,’+ I resolved to visit that hillside, and 
learn whether the record still held good. Beginning my 
search on the western side, I had not gone far before the 
occurrence of all three Sedges named convinced me of the 
accuracy of that careful botanist, to whom all Border 
naturalists are so deeply indebted. Much encouraged by 
this verification of a past record, I at once devoted atten- 
tion to the more shaded portions of the Oak plantation, 
and working eastward was at length rewarded by sighting 
a patch of C. Boenninghausiana amid surroundings very 
similar to those prevailing at the Edlingham station. 
Owing to the presence of sheep the bracts were much 
nibbled, but in other respects all specimens excelled those 
already gathered, being stouter in the stem and fuller in 
the fruit, though these peculiarities may be in a measure 
accounted for by the lapse of eight weeks since the date of 
the first discovery. 
It is not to be supposed that this rare species of Sedge 
is wholly confined in this district to stations south of the 
Tweed, and therefore a serious effort should be made to 
discover it, if possible, on the Scottish side. In doing so, 
however, it would be well to devote attention chiefly to 
districts favourable to the growth of the parents, and 
1 “ Ber. Nat. Club,” vol. i. p. 62. 
