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understood as meaning the perigynium only, he is correct, but if when 

 he speaks of the fruit, we are to understand the nut and perigynium 

 separately, he is not correct when he says it " hardly, if at all, differs 

 from that of Carex teretiuscula," as the nuts in these two Carices are 

 very different, and will be found as 1 have described them (Phytol. 

 778), although the perigynia of the two are much alike, and this I have 

 made no attempt to deny. Here again 1 find the Dr. obliged to ad- 

 mit that my plant puts on a different aspect and habit, he says it does 

 this under the adventitious circumstances in which it grows. A little 

 lower I find him talking of a modified form : modifications and chan- 

 ges will not do. I must again caution the Dr. to keep in a direct road, 

 for if he goes to one side I shall go to the other. But this I will 

 leave, and the next thing I shall notice is a modification of the fol- 

 lowing words : " as a form of C. teretiuscula with fruit as in panicu- 

 laia^' (Phytol. 778). These words I find so much modified as to stand 

 as follows : — "a form of C. teretiuscula with the fruit of C. panicu- 

 lataJ" There are two or three other things I might have noticed, but 

 as I am now taking up too much of your space, I must beg of you to 

 allow me to notice another (and perhaps the most important) point, 

 and that is the secrecy. The Dr. says that "no such thing as secrecy 

 has been shown at all," and that I was never refused to have the place 

 made known to me. Here I cannot well make use of names, as the 

 parties might not allow it ; but I will tell the Dr., that the individual 

 he alludes to, after telling me he was not at liberty to go, did refuse 

 to make the place known to me. The refusal was made on the ground 

 of its being nine miles from Manchester (I had been previously told 

 it was three miles), and that if I were to go, 1 could not find the place. 

 The Dr. further says that I did not apply to any one else ; this I will 

 say is not the case, as I made application, both by letter and other- 

 wise. I was about two hours with a person who knows where the 

 plant grows, and I tried every artifice I could to induce him either to 

 go with me to the place, or otherwise to procure me specimens ; but 

 this was all to no purpose, and when I found that I could not procure 

 them in a straightforward way, I resolved to go a little about for them. 

 And I will now tell the Dr. that the person whom he employs at times 

 to collect plants for him, did receive 5s. for going to fetch the speci- 

 mens which I have now before me. I should have had to offer a few 

 remarks on our Editor's note, but will prefer waiting the result of his 

 renewed examination, and for the present leave the subject. — Id. 



437. Note on an apparently new British Carex. I have much 

 pleasure in announcing, through the medium of ' The Phytologist ' 



