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meadow at Freshwater Gate, June 17, 1841. Remarkable for the very 

 short and broad spikes and the dark colour of the perigynes, which are 

 scarcely distinguishable from the glumes in the dried state. 



C. stricta (Gooden.) I suspect grows in several places in mainland 

 Hants, and perhaps in the Isle of Wight. I am inclined to believe 

 having noticed it abundantly in water-meadow ditches near Bishop's 

 Stoke and elsewhere, but to have passed it by for a tall form of the last, 

 or for the following, to both of which it seems to be nearly, perhaps 

 too closely, allied, and is one of those species I find difficult to under- 

 stand and recognize when T meet with them. I find a plant in my 

 herbarium marked C. stricta, with a query, gathered in a little bog 

 near St. Catherine's Point, June 11, 1839, but on a renewed examina- 

 tion am disposed to consider it as belonging to the preceding or the 

 following species. 



Carex acuta. In exactly similar places with the two foregoing, 

 but quite rare in the Isle of Wight, and to myself equally so on the 

 mainland of the county. In several meadows in Sandown marshes, 

 abundantly ; the last meadow but one on the right before coming to 

 the village is full of it. By the Titchfield River, below the town, 

 June, 1849, where it had been previously remarked by Mr. Notcutt. 

 It doubtless grows in many other parts of the county, but I think can 

 hardly be a frequent species with us, unless it has been overlooked by 

 me for some of the larger states of C. vulgaris. In Sandown Level 

 the glumes of the staminate spikes are sometimes of a pale reddish 

 brown, or almost fawn-coloured. Var. 0. Leaves extremely narrow 

 and erect ; perigynes ovate, acute, much longer than the very obtuse 

 glumes. Foot of Alverston Lynch, May 21, 1842. Comes very near 

 the description of C. Gibsoni, Bab., but twice as tall. Yet the plant 

 here is, I am convinced, a mere form of C. acuta. 



Carex jiava. By no means uncommon in boggy meadows, and 

 wet, moory, heathy pastures, both in the island and on the mainland. 

 Between Quarr and Ninham, near Ryde. On the marshy skirts of 

 Lake and Blackpan Commons. Bog at Cockleton, near West Cowes. 

 On a piece of wet land close to Little Duxmore Farm, in plenty. 

 Abundant on the boggy parts of Colwell Heath, and elsewhere in the 

 Isle of Wight, rather frequent. In the New Forest and various parts 

 of mainland Hants of general occurrence. Var. 0. (Ederi, C. CEderi, 

 Ehrh. Equally frequent, I should say, with the type. About Ryde, 

 near Fishbourne, and Ninham Farm. Near Thorley. New Copse, 

 near Wootton Bridge. Most profusely in moory meadows near the 

 Grange Farm, Alverstoke (Gomer Pond), 1849. Now very generally 



