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Profusely at the north end of Smallbrook Heath Copse, on the left 

 side of Rosemary Lane going towards Aldermoor Heath, where it 

 quite covers the ground by a plash or pool in the copse, requiring a 

 damper soil than C. sylvatica, June, 1844. Abundantly in a moist 

 copse a little south-west of Combley Farm, May, 1844. In a wood 

 between Swainston and Five Houses, but not remarked in any great 

 plenty, being confined to one spot only, June, 1845. Picked in the 

 woods at Cranbury Park, near Winton, July, 1850. By the road- 

 side just before coming to the bridge across the brook at the entrance 

 to Sidmonton Common from Newtown (near Newbury), and in great 

 abundance in a moist copse close to the said bridge, on the right hand, 

 growing along the side of the stream and a path through the copse, 

 June 3, 1850. Combe Wood, near Selborne, in one part rather abun- 

 dantly, June 17, 1850. Hill Copse, near Placehouse (Fareham), Mr. 

 W. L. Notcutt ! Much resembling the following, but in addition to 

 many and well-known marks of distinction, differs from C. sylvatica 

 in having a hollow, not solid, stem, deciduous, not, as in that, persis- 

 tent, styles, and very much broader leaves. Pistillate spikes some- 

 times compound at the base with us. 



Carex sylvatica. One of the commonest and most universal spe- 

 cies of the genus, to be found in almost every moist wood, copse, 

 grove and thicket in the county and island. Affects less moist and 

 shady places than the last. Midrib of all the glumes spinose. This 

 is not the species Linneus had in view when he tells us, in the ' Flora 

 Lapponica,' the Laplanders employ a carded and dressed plant of this 

 genus as a protection to the feet against the cold of their climate, but 

 C. vesicaria, as is quite plain by his reference to the above work, un- 

 der that species, in his ' Flora Suecica,' 2nd edit. p. 333 (#. Carex 

 culmo longissimo spicis tenuibus remotis, Fl. Lapp. 328). Our C. 

 sylvatica inhabits only the most southerly provinces of Sweden, and 

 is a perfect stranger to Arctic Europe, and of course to Lapland. 

 Carex pendula. In moist or even boggy woods, groves, thickets, 



St. Lawrence, from whence I sent young plants, through Mr. Gray, of the British 

 Museum, to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. If the mere noticing a species in ignorance of 

 its nature and rarity can be called a discovery, then the gardener above mentioned has 

 a prior claim over myself to the merit of first detecting it as British ; but Mr. Kippist 

 not merely noticed it independently of us both, but recognized it as a known and de- 

 scribed species, though new to Britain ; it is to him, therefore, that the true merit of 

 discovering Calthrus cancellatus in England belongs. 



