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3. var. awjustata, Wahl., I.e. 



" panicula elongata lineaii, floribus linearibus."' 



4. var. 'pallida, Rupr., I.e. 



panieula greenish-yellow, stiff and closed. 



C. strigosa, Wahl. (sub Arundo), Flora Lapponiea, 29 

 (1812), t. ii.i 



In June and July 1885, Mr. J. Grant of Wick sent me 

 a series of specimens from the drained site of Loch Duran. 

 On examining them it seemed to me that some of them 

 could not come under C. stricta, and were either borealis 

 or strif/osa, but having no specimens of either, I sent some 

 to Mr. N. E. Brown of the Kew Herbarium. He replied 

 (20.7.85), " The grass sent, after comparison and dissection, 

 appears to be C. strigosa, Hartm., though the ligule is not 

 so long or acute as in the typical plant, but I do not see 

 what else it can be. G. stricta, with var. borealis, both 

 have shorter glumes." In November 1885, Dr. Almquist 

 of Stockholm wrote me, " G. strigom very near the Nor- 

 wegian form." In 1895, M. Husnot wrote to my late 

 friend Mr. Beeby, " une examplaire Anglais il ne differe 

 pas du strigosa recolte par Straberg en Norvege et je crois 

 la plant anglais est bien strigosa." Then Dr. Druce sent 

 specimens (but I cannot say they were the same as mine) 

 to Dr. Hackel, our best authority on Grasses, and he named 

 them "C. stricta," and said "strigof^a" is considered a hybrid 

 of stricta with C. Epigeios. The Swedish botanists do so 

 consider it, but the Norwegian Blytt (ed. Dahl) Norges 

 Flora, 77 (1906), places it as a species with stricta. Now 

 the distribution of stricta and Epigeios is not altogether 

 against this, except that G. strigosa is recorded from Nova 

 Zembla and Epigeios is not. A few months ago I wrote 

 to my friend Dr. Otto Nordstedt of Lund, enclosing some 

 florets oE the Caithness plant, asking him to compare them 

 with Wahlenberg's types. These, he told me, are at L^psala 

 and referred me to Dr. Zuel there. Dr. Zuel kindly sent 

 me some florets from Wahlenberg's types from " Tana-elf 

 in Finmark," in N. Lat. 70° 30'. In these I can see no 

 sign of Epigeios, whose glumes are so stiff" and different. 

 Although called " elf " {i.e. river), it is situated about half- 

 1 Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc, xvi, 313, 1886. 



