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about Botley and Bishop's Waltham. S. carinatus and S. triqueter, 

 found in Sussex, may one or both be fairly looked for in this county ; 

 but 1 fear the former is hardly distinct from S. lacustris. 



Scirpus lacustris. In ponds, ditches, rivers, slow streams, and 

 marshy meadows ; common in most parts of mainland Hants, but 

 never found by me in the Isle of Wight, which possesses only the 

 next species or variety. In great quantity in a large pond at the 

 back of Langston, near Havant. Very abundantly in the river Itchen, 

 betwixt Win ton and King's Worthy. In the Lymington river, a 

 little above Hayward Mill, Boldre, &c. Titchfield river, Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt. 



Scirpus Taberncemontani (S. glaucus, Sm.) In brackish or salt 

 marshes, ditches and pools, but sometimes in those of fresh water ; 

 only found, I think, along the sea board, or at very moderate dis- 

 tances from the coast. Abundant in several parts of the Isle of Wight. 

 Marsh ditches behind Ryde Dover, pretty plentifully. Ditches near 

 Gurnet Bay, where the plant is much smaller than at Ryde. Brading 

 marshes, in plenty. Common in the ditches at Easton, Freshwater 

 Gate, and abundant in marsh-meadow ditches, between Yarmouth and 

 Thorley. I have gathered it in little inland fresh pools betwixt Ning- 

 wood and Hampstead, and on the mainland, where it is extremely com- 

 mon along the coast, as in Hayling Island, Stokes Bay, &c. With all 

 the apparent constancy which distinguishes this from the last, in 

 the glumes, number of styles, and smaller size, I find great difficulty 

 in believing it to be anything more than a maritime form of S. lacus- 

 tris. It occurs, it is true, in the Flora of Halle in Saxony, but that 

 district abounds in some parts with salt, and yields salt-marsh plants, 

 such as Salicornia, Scirpus maritimus, &c. I have certainly seen 

 transition states from one to the other, in particular the glaucescence 

 of the culms varies greatly, and is sometimes scarcely more obvious 

 in our present subject than is S. lacustris, which itself occasionally 

 assumes a conspicuously blue or grayish colour. 



Scirpus ccespitosus. On barren turfy heaths and moors; not yet 

 observed in the Isle of Wight, but plentiful enough in mainland 

 Hants, over all which part of the county it is probably dispersed. 

 Abundant on many parts of Titchfield Common. In the New Forest, 

 near Rufus's Stone, betwixt it and Castle Malwood, and doubtless 

 frequent in other parts of the forest. Abundant on the moors by 

 Christchurch, and profusely on heaths and moors near Ringwood, 

 in the vast fir plantations between the Avon and the Stour, at St. 

 Leonards, &c. By Caesar's Camp, near Farnborough. On heaths in 



