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on the beach where a small stream discharges itself into the sea, 

 about half a mile west of St. Catherine's Point, June 1, 1842. Plen- 

 tiful in a damp meadow nearly in the line between Tapnel and Wil- 

 mingham Farms, July 7, 1844. In the bog at the source of the Yar 

 (Easton Marsh), Mr. Dawson Turner in Snookes's Fl. Vect. !!! (pro- 

 bably only C. fulva). I have no mainland locality to give for C. dis- 

 tans at present, although the likelihood of its growing on the opposite 

 coast of Hants can hardly admit of question. 



C. punctata should be looked for in the county, but judging from 

 the characters of the species as described in books, it must require a 

 more than ordinarily acute eye to detect it growing, since even descrip- 

 tion fails to make the distinction between it and the two foregoing 

 species very intelligible. 



Carex exiensa. In muddy salt marshes and meadows by the sea, 

 on several parts of the coast of the Isle of Wight and mainland Hants. 

 Shores of the Wootton Paver. Moist, sandy ground amongst rushes 

 on St. Helen's Spit, in some plenty. Frequent along the Yar between 

 Norton and Freshwater, particularly amongst reeds at the edge of a 

 copse on the east bank, a few hundred yards below the mill and near 

 a cottage, with (E nan the Lachenalii. Picked in a meadow near Far- 

 lington. Between Emsworth and Langston. Creek of the Beaulieu 

 River, a little above Upper Exbury brickyard, in plenty, Aug. 28, 

 1850; fruit only then ripe in part, being much later in coming to ma- 

 turity than in any species I am acquainted with.* Cams shore ; the 

 Salterns (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt ! There are two excellent 

 figures of this species in Host's ' Graminse Austriaca,' i. t. 73, 'and 

 ' Flora Danica,' x. t. 1709. Both these works are deserving of more 

 frequent quotation and reference by British botanists than heretofore, 

 for the excellence and fidelity of the plates, which exhibit in most 

 cases full-length portraits of the tribes we are now speaking of. 



Carex pallescens. In marshy (scarcely in boggy ?) places ; usually 

 with us in clamp or even dry woods and thickets, but by no means 

 frequent, either in the Isle of Wight or on mainland Hants. New 

 Copse, between Ryde and Wootton Bridge, pretty plentiful in the 

 drier and more open parts. Abundantly in Dunnage Copse, not far 

 from Briddlesford Farm, June 4, 1841. Stroud Wood, between 



* 1 have indeed gathered it at St. Helen's with nearly ripe fruit as early as July 

 21, hut the perigyues of most, if not all, our other Hampshire Carices have fallen off 

 by that time, or are ready to do so, whilst those of C. extensa are persistent on the 

 spikes till the close of September, and perhaps later, although the flowering season 

 (June) is but little behind that of C. flava and its other allies. 



