1032 



Blysmus should be looked for along that part of the frontier line. 

 The more exclusively northern B. rufus may be found extending its 

 equatorial limits as far as this and other southern Euglish counties. 

 Our species has some resemblance to Carex intermedia, and was at 

 one time even referred to that genus by Linneus, and called by him 

 C. uliginosa, manifestly through hasty examination or careless inat- 

 tention to the great differences in the structure which distinguish 

 these genera. 



Eriophorum vaginatum. On turfy boggy heaths, and wet barren 

 moors ; apparently quite uncommon in Hants, although doubtless 

 other stations besides those subjoined exist in the county. On a bare 

 stony bank, under Caesar's Camp, near Farnham, just above a spring, 

 along with Convallaria majalis, 1844, Mr. W. W. Reeves. Sought un- 

 successfully there with the discoverer, April 30, 1850, both plants 

 having seemingly become extinct. On Christchurch or Hengistbury 

 Head, and at Sandy Balls, near Breamore, Mr. J. Hussey ! In Miss 

 Lovell's herbarium is a specimen of an Eriophorum, with a solitary 

 spike, picked by herself, Sept. 23, 1847, under the shore going west- 

 ward from Blackgang towards Walpen Chine in this island, but the 

 plant wants the inflated leafless upper sheath of the present species, 

 and is, probably, only an accidental single-spiked form of the fol- 

 lowing. 



Eriophorum polystachyon. In wet and boggy places, on barren 

 moors and heaths, also on slipped land along the sea coast. Var. a. 

 Fruit obovato-elliptical, E. polystachyon, Leight., Fl. of Shrops. p. 

 31, and fig. in pi. 2. Most abundantly on bogs on Rookley Moors, 

 about the Wilderness, &c. Abundant in boggy ground on the south- 

 eastern face of Bleak Down. Var. /3. Fruit elliptical-acuminate ; E. 

 angustifolium, Leight. (ut supra), with the former about the Wilder- 

 ness, in plenty. These two varieties are scarcely distinguishable from 

 each other by any well-marked or constant character, nor do I find 

 the hairs of the second, in this island, any longer than those of the 

 first variety. One or other grows on the wet, slipped banks of clay, in 

 Colwell and Totland Bays, near Blackgang, and elsewhere, occasion- 

 ally along the south-western shores of the island. Exceedingly fre- 

 quent and abundant in mainland Hants, on the extensive moorlands 

 of the New Forest, Christchurch and Ringwood Hundreds, and, in- 

 deed, over most parts of the county. 



Eriophorum latifolium. In similar places with the two preceding, 

 but apparently much rarer than E. polystachyon. At present I have 

 only the undermentioned stations to record for it in Hands, but it is 



