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scarcely a line wide, in other examples three or four lines broad, 

 whilst the degree of glaucescence is hardly less subject to variation. 



Carex palndosa. In low, marshy, swampy meadows and pastures, 

 in ditches, pools, by river sides, &c. Together with the next, an 

 abundant species in the county, but not very common in the Isle of 

 Wight. In a boggy spot on the western skirts of Lake Common, in 

 plenty ; also along marsh ditches by the road-side just before coming 

 to Sandown village from Brading. Wet meadows a little above Al- 

 verston Mill, and along the side of the mill-stream, intermixed with 

 the following, plentifully. Boggy meadows at Easton, Freshwater, 

 Abundantly by the water courses just above Yafford Mill, and fre- 

 quent in wet meadows about Brixton ; abundant in the boggy mea- 

 dows at Moor Town and all the way to Bottle Hole, in the wet willow 

 thickets. At Steep Hill, in a moist meadow nearly opposite the stables 

 and laundry, in plenty. More universal in mainland Hants, where it 

 is of very common occurrence in most districts. Profusely in the 

 great pond at Bishop's Waltham. Plentiful on Stoke Common, and 

 about the pond at Old Alresford, &c. By Titchfield River, Mr. W. 

 L. Notcutt. 



Carex riparia. In exactly the same places with the last, and 1 

 think of about equal frequency on the mainland of Hants ; less com- 

 mon perhaps than C. paludosa in the island. Abundant in the marsh 

 ditches behind the Dover at Ryde, and in Centurion's Copse, near 

 Brading.* Fringes the stream above Alverston Mill in great profu- 

 sion and luxuriance. In most of the places given for C. paludosa on 

 mainland Hants, as well as in innumerable others. Place House ; 

 Fontley (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Var. /3. Spikes of either sex 

 more attenuate (the pistillate especially), on extremely long, slender 

 stalks, pendulous ; staminate spikes for the most part solitary, terminal, 

 drooping, bearing pistillate flowers in the middle. On a piece of very 

 wet salt marsh under Chapel Corner Copse, at the mouth of the 

 Wootton River, in plenty, May 22, 1846. This remarkable condition 

 rather than variety of C. riparia, was sought by me unsuccessfully this 

 summer ; the plants on the station having assumed the normal ap- 



* It has been suggested to me that Centurion is a corruption of St. Tewin, a Saxon 

 or perhaps British saint, and that therefore the latter is the proper orthography. Tra- 

 dition gives this copse as the site of a French town in very early times, as Newtown 

 certainly was (thence called Francheville in old records) : may not the place now oc- 

 cupied by the copse in question have been dedicated to St. Ouen, the same personage 

 as St. Tewin, and identical with the Welsh name of Owen ? 



