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fermline." This discovery is quite unexpected. I should have con- 

 jectured the likelihood of L. albida being found in Scotland, to be 

 much greater ; but the conjecture would have been wrong, it now 

 appears, though in conformity with the distribution of the two species 

 on the Continent. It is to be feared that this pretty Luzula will 

 prove only very local with us ; as it seems unlikely to be overlooked 

 by any botanist fortunate enough to come upon a locality for the 

 plant, the white flowers of which should make it rather conspicuous. 



9. Carex vulgaris var. juncea (Fries ?) — This is one of the innu- 

 merable varieties of the species which English botanists, by common 

 consent, and for many years, have (it is said) mis-called " caespitosa;" 

 and which, in the fifth edition of the British Flora, in Babington's 

 Manual, and in the London Catalogue, is entered under the name of 

 " Goodenovii (Gay)." Among other distinctions. Gay's Carex Goode- 

 novii is stated to have its root " creeping, laxly caespitose ; " while 

 the supposed Linnean Carex coespitosa (Goodenough's stricta) is de- 

 scribed as " densely caespitose." The specimens now distributed 

 were pulled from tufts as densely caespitose as ever Carex was ; fifty 

 or a hundred flowering stems growing up closely together from the 

 same root. Yet they are not the Linnean caespitosa, nor the stricta 

 of Goodenough. For the suggestion of the name above given to them, 

 I am indebted to Dr. Boott. Wishing to make some further remarks 

 on this and allied species, I will not seek to occupy more space of 

 the Phytologist at the present time ; but may send a short separate 

 paper upon them hereafter. 



10. Lysiinachia Azorica (Hornem.) — Two varieties, partly wild 

 examples, partly garden-grown in this country. They are distri- 

 buted to English botanists on account of their close affinity (perhaps, 

 specific identity) with our L. nemorum. I wish to distribute the ex- 

 amples among botanists likely to be familiar with the British L. nemo- 

 rum ; because these two varieties, taken in connexion with our native 

 plant, aff"ord very decided instances of the uncertainty or inconstancy 

 of characters, such as are usually deemed very sufficient for specific 

 diagnosis. As with the preceding Carex, however, I postpone re- 

 marks which might prove rather diff'use or lengthy, to a future occa- 

 sion ; and will now simply recommend botanists to preserve the speci- 

 mens for reference at another time. 



IL Cyperusfuscus (Linn.) — Mr. Salmon having sent a good sup- 

 ply of this very local plant, from the new (second) locality, announced 

 lately in the Phytologist (ii. 609), it was thought that members might 

 find a specimen acceptable, even though their herbaria might akeady 



