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average considerably more luxuriant. I believe the second 
station to be identical with Crawford’s ; E. F. Linton grew 
his plant, and it remained quite sterile and unchanged. There 
I could see neither of the parents, but I believe the original 
station for /agopina was very close at hand” (Marshall 
zn lztt.). 
To Mr. Marshall’s (R. No. 2980) specimens Herr Kiken- 
thal has added “very characteristic.” Good cultivated 
specimens were issued by Rev. E. F. Linton in 1909, through 
the Watson Botanical Exchange Club. In 1898 and 1899 
Mr. Druce (19) gathered specimens on Ben Lawers that 
differed, and caused him to write “ /elvola var.” (19). Some 
of these Herr Kiukenthal cites under “C. canescens x stellu- 
lata=C. btharica, Simonk.” ;1 others as “C. ‘etrastachya, 
Traun.,” supercanescens, Kiikl.” 
I have specimens gathered on Ben Lawers (19/8/1886) by 
Messrs. H. and J. Groves which seem to be referable to 
helvola, at that date of course under “ C. curta v. alpticola.” 
I have seen specimens also from Forfar (Edinb. Herb.), and 
Mr. N. E. Brown wrote (30/3/1886) that he believed there is 
a specimen from Ben Muic Dhui in the Kew Herbarium, but 
had not dissected it; and the late Mr. Beeby wrote: “I seem 
to have Carex helvola from Glas Mheil. leg. Duthie, 1874.” 
This is in Forfar, but on the confines of Forfar, Aberdeen, 
and Perth, alt. 3502 feet. C. Lachenali (lagopina) occurs in 
Forfar (Ewing). The fullest account we have of the plant is 
furnished by Herr Kihlman (6), where he also describes a 
hybrid between canescens and norvegica, Willd., as C. pseudo- 
helvola. 
In Europe C. elvola occurs in Finnish and Russian Lap- 
land north to 69° 50’ N. lat.; Swedish Lapland; Sweden in 
Bohuslan, Upland, Sddermanland, and Vesterbotten; Nor- 
way to 71° 3’ (Norman),*® and distributed from the Birch to 
the Willow Belts (4); Iceland. Asch. and Graeb., “S. Mitt. 
E. Fl.,” 1902, p. 64. Greenland (5 and 9). 
I here confine myself to the original /elvola, the Tirol, etc., 
plants being C. ¢etrastachya, Traun. 
1 “Enum. Fl. Trans.,” 1886, p. 548. 
2 Sauter, “ Flora,” 1850, p. 366. 
3 “ Not. summ. concep. Arctic Norway,” 1881, p. 500. 
