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speedy detection in other parts of the kingdom, and am now of 

 opinion that it will ultimately prove more frequent and widely dis- 

 persed over the land than C.longus, because this last is a more south- 

 ern and far less hardy species than the other, and is scarcely known 

 on the continent of Europe under British parallels, excepting in one 

 or two places in Belgium,* whilst C. fuse us, as we have before re- 

 marked, has a very wide range of distribution, both in latitude and 

 longitude. It is worthy of notice, that even the discoverer of C. fus- 

 cus near Godalming appears unable to divest himself of some of those 

 misgivings which seem constitutional to British botanists, since in his 

 announcement of the fact of its occurrence at Peat pond he says : 

 " Has Mr. Mill or any other gentleman carried out the suggestion in 

 the article referred to (dissemination of seeds artificially), by intro- 

 ducing the plant here ?" It is not twenty years since Polygonum du- 

 metorum was first observed in this kingdom, and now there are few of 

 the southern counties of England in which it remains undiscovered ; 

 yet did this conspicuous plant share the fate of most other novelties 

 to our vegetation in being stigmatized with the brand of an interloper 

 in the fourth edition of the ' British Flora.' I have visited both the 

 English stations for C. fuscus, and am astonished how any one could 

 imagine it likely that the plant was introduced to either. For my 

 own part, I am prepared to hear C. fuscus announced as found in 

 Yorkshire, and think C. longus will probably be found to range west- 

 ward into the south and south-west of Ireland. Cyperus flavescens, 

 the only other species of the genus that can reasonably be looked for 

 in Britain, may very possibly be found hereafter with C. fuscus, its 

 common associate on the continent. 



Schoeniift nigricans. On turfy, moory bogs ; very rare. Townhill 

 Common (near Southampton), the late Mr. N. J. Winch in New Bot. 

 Guide. Bog on the east side of Gomer Pond (near Gosport), but con- 

 fined to one spot, Mr. Borrer. I have not yet seen Hampshire speci- 

 mens of this plant, which has not occurred to me in the Isle of Wight, 

 but I suspect it will be found to be not very uncommon on our forest 

 bogs in the south-west of the county, and elsewhere. Dr. Salter finds 

 it in plenty in some places near Poole. 



Cladium Mariscus. In deep turfy or peaty bogs, and fenny places; 

 extremely rare in the Isle of Wight. In the marsh at Easton, Fresh- 

 water Gate, Mr. J. S. Mill !!! I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. 

 Mill for the only flowering specimens I possess, from the above and 



* At Bmtscheid, near Aix la Chapelle, ^c. 



