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Point. Plentiful and very fine at the mouth of the Wootton river. 

 Common about Cowes, as in Gurnet Bay, and abundantly in all the 

 marshy meadows at the back of it. By creeks of the Medina, above 

 West Cowes, frequent. Abundant in a meadow betwixt Yarmouth 

 and Thorley, on the left hand of the small bridge, also along the 

 shore a little east of Yarmouth. At Bembridge, by the road side op- 

 posite the blacksmith's shop at Hillway, Dr. T. Bell Salter. Very 

 common, I think, on the coast of the mainland. Frequent near Alver- 

 stoke, and if I recollect rightly in Hayling Island. Meadows along 

 the shore below Lymington, where, as in the Isle of Wight, it forms 

 the greater part of the herbage. Salt marshes at Exbury. Marshes 

 near Hill Head, in abundance, Mr. W. L. Notcutt ! A troublesome 

 plant in our natural maritime meadows and pastures, as being apt to 

 mingle in too large a proportion with the hay crop, that here and 

 there consists of little else but this sedge, which is commonly in 

 flower with us by the middle of April. Schkuhr's figure of C. divisa 

 is a professed copy of Goodenough's, and being coloured from descrip- 

 tion only is very unlike nature. 



Carex intermedia. In wet meadows, by the sides of ditches, pools, 

 rivers, &c, not rare. Frequent in the marsh at Easton, Fresh- 

 water Gate.* In a wet meadow at the upper end of Brading Har- 

 bour, plentifully. Boggy, swampy marshes at Andover. On Stoke 

 Common, and in the Nythe pastures by the great pond at Alresford, 

 plentiful in both places. Winnal meadows, by Winchester, Chilbolton 

 Common. Bog at Cockleton, near Cowes, Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! 

 and many other places. Var. (3. Spikes very compact, spikelets for 

 the most part pistillate throughout with darker glumes. Wet mea- 

 dow between Brixton and Muggleton, Isle of Wight, April 30, 1846. 

 A rather remarkable form, differing from the ordinary state in the 

 closer, less distinctly lobed and elongated spikes, which in nearly all 

 the specimens I collected appear to consist entirely of pistillate 

 florets throughout, one example only exhibiting staminate florets to- 

 wards the summit of the spike, those below and at the apex being 

 pistillate as usual. This variety has broader leaves than in my 



* I much fear that all the interesting plants at Easton are in a fair way of being 

 speedily exterminated, through the bog-reclaiming zeal of Mr. John Squire, of Yar- 

 mouth, and that by this time many of the stations recorded in the earlier part of these 

 notes have become matter of history only. I have not visited that ill-fated morass for 

 some months, but have been complacently invited to come and view the improvements 

 made there this summer, and which I expect will have robbed the spot of half its attrac- 

 tions for the botanist. 



