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ents as will favour me with specimens and notices of Hampshire Gra- 

 mina and Cyperacese, the latter more especially, as less easy of detec- 

 tion than the grasses, after the first half of summer, when the fruit has 

 fallen away. I am already indebted to Mr. Borrer for information 

 and examples illustrative of both these tribes, in the district where 

 such help is most needed ; and Mr. Watson has communicated to me 

 notices of one or two grasses new to the county, leaving me to regret 

 the want of such able and zealous assistants to lighten my labours by 

 more than their occasional services. 



Carex dioica, although as yet a very dubious inhabitant of Hants, 

 can scarcely be supposed a stranger to the bogs and marshes of this 

 county. It was pointed out to me growing sparingly in one spot, 

 June 17, 1844, by Fred. Townsend, Esq., in a moist meadow imme- 

 diately behind the Wilderness, at Rookley. I find the station entered 

 as above in my MS., with a doubt expressed, but I think I felt such 

 doubt at the time of seeing the plant, and having unluckily preserved 

 no specimens, I held it safest to suppose an error, and that C. puli- 

 caris was in all likelihood mistaken for C. dioica in this instance. 



Carex pulicaris. In bogs and marshy places, on wet moors, 

 heaths and commons ; not unfrequent in the Isle of Wight, and pro- 

 bably throughout the county. Heath near Smallgains farm, by New- 

 port, frequent. At Freshwater Gate, and abundant on the upper part 

 of Colwell Heath. Wet places on Lake Common, and on Bleak 

 Down. Marshy, heathy ground at the back of the great fir plantation 

 in Long Lane, near Arreton. Bog at Blackpan, Dr. T. Bell Salter ! 

 Bog just below Cockleton farm, Miss G. E. Kilderbee. Titchfield 

 Common, Mr. W. L. Notcutt!!! Titchborne Common, Mr. W. 

 Pamplin. I have since met with it in other parts of mainland 

 Hants, where it is certainly not uncommon. 



[Carex incurva.] In looking over the herbarium of the late Mrs. 

 Robinson, of Fareham, shortly after that lady's decease a year or two 

 ago, the Rev. G. E. Smith found a couple if not more of packets of 

 this northern sedge, each paper containing numerous specimens, and 

 labelled in Mrs. R's. hand-writing, " Bog on Titchfield Common." 

 That a Carex hitherto found only in the northernmost parts of 

 Britain, on the continent,* and restricted to the dry sandy shores 

 of the ocean, should grow on a southern and comparatively inland 

 morass, is a deviation from its usual habitudes so improbable, that 

 with one of these specimens before me, for which I am indebted to 



* It is stated, however, to grow on the Alps, as the C.juncifolia of Allioni. 



