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low the middle, and in its style being thickened at the base : in C. 

 teretiuscula the style is not thickened at the base, and the nut is py- 

 riform, naiTowing downwards from above the middle. This plant 

 grows in the neighbourhood of Manchester, but I am sorry to say T 

 cannot give the exact locality, as that is a secret. The same plant 

 grows plentifully by the sides of Malham tarn, near Settle, in York- 

 shire. It is nearly allied to C. paradoxa, which grows in Islington 

 fields, near York, and is accurately described by Mr. Babington in 

 his 'Manual,' (p. 337). C. paradoxa may at once be distinguished 

 from this plant by its perigynium, which is more gibbous, and has 

 about nine nerves on the convex side and seven on the other. — Id. 



393. Note on Carex hoenningliausiana and C. axillaris. The next 

 I would notice are Carex axillaris and C. boenninghausiana ; see 

 Babington's 'Manual' (p. 339), Mr. Luxford's note (Phytol. 650), and 

 Mr. Edmonston's list of Edinburgh plants (Id. 407 and 522). This 

 will, I think, be some excuse for my enquiry (Phytol. 263) ; and per- 

 haps, after all, C. axillaris may turn out to be a much rarer plant than 

 was suspected. The following short description I drew up from one 

 of the specimens referred to by Mr. Luxford, while in my possession ; 

 since that time Mr. Luxford has been kind enough to give me one of 



those specimens. Carex ? Spike three inches long ; spikelets 



ten in number, the two lowest compound and about an inch asunder, 

 the remaining eight regularly decreasing in distance : lower bractea 

 with a narrow ligula passing round the stem : leaves flat, about one- 

 eighth of an inch in breadth, sheathing the stem at their base : stem 

 eighteen inches high, with three rough angles : perigynium ovate, 

 acuminate, serrulate nearly to the base, and very slightly bifid at the 

 point: calyx-scales brown, with one strong nervure, more or less dis- 

 continued below the point, which has broadly membranaceous edges. 

 The specimen is from Crichton castle, near Edinburgh, one of the 

 stations given by Sir Wm. Hooker for C. axillaris. I have other spe- 

 cimens of the same plant from Borthwick castle, near Edinburgh, ga- 

 thered by Mr. Ainley of Bingley ; and others from the same locality. 

 I have also two fine specimens of this plant, which were given to me 

 in 1834, without any name, but marked " Putney, near London;" 

 this also is one of the stations given for C. axillaris. Perhaps many 

 of the stations that are given for C. axillaris would turn out to belong 

 to this plant, if carefully examined. The true C. axillaris I have from 

 the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and from Southampton, and others 

 from Over in Cheshire. — Id. 



394. Note on Carex muricata. The last Carex I shall notice at 



