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great plenty in a marshy slip of ground just beyond the northern end 

 of the willow-bed east of Bagwich Farm. Wood between Ryde and 

 Newport, Mr. Dawson Turner in Snookes's Fl. Vect. On the main- 

 land it is perhaps not less generally distributed. In considerable 

 plenty on a low, damp part of Heckfield Park, near Odihara. Ex- 

 tremely abundant in Cranbury Park woods. Between Alton and 

 Chawton Park, Mr. J. Woods, jun., in Bot. Guide. A handsome 

 sedge, nearly allied to C. binervis, but very distinct by the lanceolate, 

 not ovate, and mucronate glumes, longer pistillate spikes, paler and 

 more spreading perigynes and glumes, tawny or fulvous colour of the 

 staminate spike, and by the greatly shorter and broader leaves, of a 

 paler green. The nut I find precisely the same in both. I have ob- 

 served C. laevigata near Ryde subdicecious, by the total'suppression 

 of the usual pistillate spikes beneath the solitary terminal staminate 

 one. The anthers in this and binervis are spinulose at the tips, most 

 conspicuously so in the latter. 



Carex •panicea. In marshy or boggy ground, on damp heaths, 

 moors and pastures ; very frequent over the Isle of Wight and rest of 

 the county. Var. 0. Perigynes more oblong, or elliptical and pointed. 

 On the bog upon Colwell Heath, Freshwater, July 9, 1844. The rare 

 C. depauperata, found near Godalming, in the contiguous county of 

 Surrey, where, guided by Mr. Salmon, I have gathered fine specimens 

 a few years back, may fairly be hoped for as an accession to the Hants 

 flora, through some diligent plant-hunter of a future day. Don's 

 alleged Forfarshire station is probably erroneous for a species so de- 

 cidedly southern as this. 



The pretty and mostly north-country C. limosa, I by no means de- 

 spair of adding eventually to our Hampshire list of sedges. 



Carex strigosa. In damp, wet or boggy woods, groves, thickets 

 and copses, but not common, either in the Isle of Wight or on the 

 mainland. In St. John's Wood, close to Ryde, but sparingly, May 

 31, 1840. In the wood (Monkton Mead Wood ?) nearest to the sea 

 skirting the marsh meadows behind Ryde Dover, abundantly, 1843.* 



* This wood is, I believe, one of the three stations in the Isle of Wight for the very 

 rare and curious Clathrus cancellatus, which has lately been found by Mrs. Griffith 

 at Torquay, in Devonshire. The discovery of the Clathrus has been attributed in a 

 most beautiful work on British Fungi, still in course of publication, by a lady, to the 

 author of these notes, but the real discoverer was Mr. Kippist, librarian to the Lin- 

 nean Society, as that gentleman detected it at Ryde, in the above wood, about the 

 same time ' that^my attention was called to it at Old Park, by the gardener there, 

 when it was again observed by myself shortly afterwards in the Pelham woods, near 



