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the locality of Breidden Hill, from the ' English Flora,' and printed it 

 for " H. sylvaticura, maculatum." — Id. November 27. 



421. Note on Carex paradoxa. Having observed in your last num- 

 ber an allusion to the existence of Carex paradoxa near York (Phytol. 

 779), I am induced to send you a short account of its discovery. It 

 was first found by myself in Heslington fields, in April, 1841, and a 

 few weeks afterwards in Ascham bogs, an immense marsh about three 

 miles S. of York ; in both which localities it grows in the greatest 

 abundance. At that time I referred it, though doubtfully, to C. tere- 

 tiuscula ; but from this I observed that it differed in its mode of 

 growth (forming compact tufts or stools like those of C. paniculata), 

 in its larger panicle, more numerously striated fruit, &c., and I thought 

 it not improbable that it might prove to be the C. paradoxa alluded to 

 in Hooker's Flora under C. paniculata. I possessed, however, neither 

 specimen nor description of that species with which to compare my 

 plant, and my attention has been since then so completely engrossed 

 by other departments of Botany, that I neglected to take the opinion 

 of any of my friends capable of deciding on such a subject. Mr. Bor- 

 rer, whom I had the pleasure of seeing in York in the early part of 

 September last, first informed me that my plant was identical with 

 the Irish Carex paradoxa ; and more lately I have received similar 

 testimony from Mr. Wilson, who was, I believe, the first to make out 

 Mr. D. Moore's specimens. In Heslington fields, Carex paradoxa is 

 accompanied by C. caespitosa {true), C. acuta, C. fulva, C. dioica &c. 

 In some parts of Ascham bogs the vegetation is almost entirely com- 

 posed of C. paradoxa and cgespitosa, but in the intervals between the 

 tufts it is not uncommon to find a few scattered plants of C. filiformis, 

 a plant which grows abundantly in bogs on some of our moors in the 

 Vale of York. Carex paniculata grows also in Ascham bogs, and at- 

 tains an enormous size, but I do not recollect having seen it growing 

 side by side with C. paradoxa. I believe the latter matures its fi"uit 

 two or three weeks earlier than the former. We have not the true C. 

 teretiuscula nearer than Terrington Carr, which is fifteen miles N. of 

 York. — Richard Spruce ; York, November 21, 1843. 



422. Note on Carex axillaris. This plant does not grow in Hes- 

 lington fields, as has been supposed (Phytol. 199), but it occurs in 

 considerable quantity at the margins of brick-ponds on Hob-moor, 

 near this city, where my attention was first directed to it by my fiiend 

 Mr. O. A. Moore, in June, 1842f. The Carices growing along with it 

 are C. remota, vulpina, Pseudo-Cyperus, &c.; of these, C vulpina is 

 by far the most like C. axillaris in habit, but the concave surfaces, and 



