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Aldermoor Mill and Coppid Hall. A few specimens found in a wood 

 near Apley, by Ryde, June, 1845, Mr. Thos. Meehan !! In a damp 

 wood in Heckfield Park, near Odiham (the Rt. Hon. Chas. Shaw Le- 

 fevre's). Near Alton, in Carter's Copse, by Rotherfield Park, and 

 picked in Chawton Park. A pretty, delicate Carex, apparently more 

 frequent in the north of England and Scotland than in these southern 

 parts of the kingdom. 



Carex binervis. In dry or even boggy woods, and on heaths and 

 barren, turfy moors, not uncommon. Plentiful in New Copse, be- 

 tween Ryde and Wootton. Common in the dell known as Tinker's 

 Hole, at Apse Castle. On Briddlesford Heath. Plentiful on Bleak 

 Down. Bog at Blackpan, Dr. T. Bell Salter, 1844 ! Abundantly on 

 Titchfield Common, and elsewhere remarked in the county, where it 

 is certainly not rare on the moors and heaths. Near Hill Head, Mr. 

 W. L. Notcutt. Closely allied to the following, between which and 

 C. distans it is in some degree intermediate, though abundantly dis- 

 tinct from either. 



Carex Ixevigatu. In boggy or marshy places, wet woods, thickets, 

 copses, meadows and pastures ; never, I think, like the last, on very 

 dry ground.* In very many places in the Isle of Wight. On a little 

 piece of boggy ground by the road-side a few hundred yards before 

 coming to Ninham Farm from Ryde, and in a boggy copse close to 

 Prestwood. Very common in several parts of Sandown Level, and in 

 moist woods and pastures between Apse and Ninham Farms (near 

 Shanklin), also in Apse Heath withy-bed, and in a low, marshy spot 

 at Apse Castle. New Copse, near Wootton Bridge, in very great 

 abundance. Common about Calborne Mill, and between it and New- 

 bridge. Briddlesford Copse, abundantly. Extremely common in 

 damp, boggy woods about Newchurch, as in the Parsonage Lynch, 

 Alverston Lynch, wet parts of Bordwood Copse, &c, abundantly. 

 In a marshy wood within half a mile of Combley Farm to the south- 

 west, and on a piece of marshy land close to Little Duxmore. In 



* C. binervis and laevigata are often found growing together in tliis island, the lat- 

 ter most abundantly in very wet, the former in drier situations, on heaths, &c, but 

 like its congener, C. binervis may be successfully sought for in the wettest thicket or 

 morass, and laevigata in comparatively dry places. In their flowering time there is a 

 considerable difference, C. binervis being for the most part far advanced before C. 

 laevigata begins to bloom, which is commonly not till the latter end of May, whereas 

 the other is seen in flower early in that month, or even at the close of April. This 

 difference in the flowering time is inherent, and not dependent on situation, since the 

 same order is observed by the two plants when growing together under precisely simi- 

 lar circumstances. 



