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in some places, June, 1850. In a lane between Cove and Hillmore 

 Farm, near Farnborough, in some plenty. Abundant in a pool about 

 a mile from Upper Exbury, on the road to Beaulieu. I have picked 

 it in the heart of the New Forest, and in other parts of the county, 

 where this most graceful species is very widely distributed. 



Carex pracox. Frequent on heaths, and in dry, turfy meadows, 

 pastures, open woods, &c, throughout the county and island. 



C. montana, Schk. (not of Linn, according to Sm.), C. collina, 

 Willd. (see. Hook, and Am. Br. Fl. 6th edit.), which has lately been 

 discovered in Sussex by Mr. W. Mitten, should be looked for in 

 Hampshire. 



Carex pilulifera. In marshy, moory or boggy ground, on damp 

 heaths, and in moist woods, &c. ; not uncommon, and from its small 

 size less often observed than overlooked. Plentiful in New Copse, 

 between Ryde and Wootton Bridge. Common at Apse Castle, on the 

 turf walks. On Lake Common, &c. I happen to have no memoranda 

 of localities for this species on the mainland, where I have repeatedly 

 met with it, and am certain of its being not at all unfrequent in that 

 part of the county. 



The very rare C. tomentosa of the adjoining county of Wilts, its 

 only known British station being at Merston Measy, where it has been 

 gathered in plenty of late years by Mr. Borrer and Mr. Flower, may 

 be eventually found within the limits of this flora. With far greater 

 probability may C. clandestina be expected with us, as it grows in 

 quantities on the high chalk downs stretching eastward from Salis- 

 bury, towards the Hampshire border, as I am informed by Mr. J. 

 Hussey, who showed it to me last May in the vicinity of that city, 

 growing in patches, distinguished by their pale green colour from the 

 surrounding short herbage of the downs. The neighbourhood of 

 Breamore and Rockbourne, to the north of Fordingbridge, is the most 

 likely to produce this rare and remarkable species. 



Carex glauca (C. recurva, Huds.). In woods, meadows, pastures, 

 along hedges, road-sides, on heaths and commons, in bogs and marshes ; 

 the most abundant and universal, as well as most variable in aspect, 

 of all our sedges. In two specimens of C. glauca, I found on the 

 summit of one of their pistillate spikes, in the first a diendrous floret, 

 each of whose filaments was tipped with a double erect anther ; on 

 the other spike was a monandrous floret, with the filament cleft, and 

 bearing a single erect anther on each fork. It is singular that this 

 very common European Carex, which does not appear to be at all 

 rare in Sweden, should yet have been overlooked and left undescribed 

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