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moist shady places. Much move frequent than C. muricata in the 

 Isle of Wight, and, in fact, no uncommon species in the county at 

 large. In many places about Ryde, close to the town, as in hedges 

 about Little Barground (formerly at least, now perhaps destroyed 

 by alterations), in Quarr Copse, by the road-side betwixt Oakfield 

 and St. John's, and elsewhere. Plentiful with C. remota, under 

 hedges in the lane that crosses the Newport road, on Binstead Hill, 

 leading to Ninham, Firestone Copse, &c, and on the road out of 

 Ryde towards Upton, and Haven Street, near the direction post. 

 Frequent on hedge-banks about Newchurch, as by the road-side to 

 Mersley, &c. Near Osborne or New Barn farm, East Cowes. In 

 plenty on a low bank facing the lodge gate at Westover, and by the 

 road-side betwixt Newbridge and Colbourne, &c, as well as in vari- 

 ous other parts of the island. About Titchfield, in hedges, between 

 Titchfield and Fareham. Strathfieldsaye Park and elsewhere, re- 

 marked by myself, not uncommonly. Titchfield road, Puxol Lane 

 (near Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Assuredly very close to C. mu- 

 ricata in character, yet I do not remember ever having found any 

 difficulty in distinguishing one from the other. The ripe perigynes 

 of the more remote spikelets are only moderately spreading, and are 

 quite glabrous and smooth, excepting a few small distant serratures to- 

 wards the apex of the gradually tapered beak. The nut I find ex- 

 actly similar in both plants. C. teretiuscula most likely inhabits the 

 county, but it is either itself an obscure species, too nearly resembling 

 C. paniculata, or I do not sufficiently know the plant to be able to 

 distinguish it at sight ; all the specimens I have at first taken for it 

 have proved on further examination to be only the variety of C. pani- 

 culata descried under that species. My dried authentic examples 

 from other parts of England of C. teretiuscula do not help me to dis- 

 criminate these two from each other. 



Carex 'paniculata. In wet boggy woods, thickets, willow-beds and 

 in watery meadows ; extremely frequent in the Isle of Wight, and, as 

 far as my observation has yet extended, throughout the county. Plen- 

 tiful in a wood a little way out of Ryde, near the junction of the 

 roads to Ashey and Haven Street. Abundant in all the wet thickets 

 about Newchurch and Alverston, in Apse Heath and Horringford 

 withy beds, on the Wilderness, and Rookley Moors, near Newport, 

 and in most swampy thickets and copses in the island. Var. /3. 

 Smaller, in scattered simple tufts ; panicle close with short branches. 

 Bog below the bank betwixt Hartsash and Knighton farm, a little 

 above Knighton Lower Mill, in plenty, May 6, 1845. On boggy 



