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the discovery (by Saml. Hailstone, Esq., F.L.S., of Horton Hall, near 

 Bradford) of a Carex which appears to me not to be described by any 

 writer on British plants. For this Carex I will propose the following 

 name, and give a short description of it : but if it prove to be already 

 described by continental botanists, under any other name, the one I 

 have adopted will, of course, be given up. Caeex Hailstoni (Mihi). 

 Stem about 18 inches high, three-angled, angles rough in the upper 

 part, smooth below. Leaves flat, sheathing the base of the stem, ta- 

 pering at the point and rough on the edges. Spike 2|- inches long, 

 composed of about five alternate elongated spikelets, the lowermost of 

 which is subtended by a bractea, which is somewhat longer than the 

 spike : spikelets about an inch long, composed of about nine or ten 

 spicula, these again are composed of about nine or ten staminiferous 

 flowers : glumes ovate-acuminate, brown, with membranous edges. 

 The roots and fertile flowers are unknown to me ; perhaps the plant 

 will be found to be a dioecious one, as I have not been able to find a 

 single fertile flower in any of the specimens. Locality, " In a bog in the 

 meadow on the left hand of Ore lane, proceeding fi-om Hastings. In 

 the spring of the year 1834." This plant is perhaps still to be found 

 in the same locality, and would be well worth the trouble of being 

 looked for by any botanist who may at any time be in search of plants 

 in the neighbourhood of Hastings. This Carex is a very conspicuous 

 one, and would soon be seen by any person who is acquainted with 

 the genus. It is now nine years since Mr. Hailstone discovered the 

 plant ; and he says in his letter to me, that he had kept it in his her- 

 barium separate and apart, as not being described by any author that 

 he was aware of, as an English plant. — Id.* 



438. Erratum. Perhaps you will allow me to correct a little error 

 which appears in your last (Phytol. 815) ; in the last line of that page 

 read tieuter spikelets instead of outer spikelets. — Id. 



439. Habitat for Cynodon Dactylon. For the use of the youthful 

 botanist resident in or near the great metropolis, to whom information 

 of the whereabouts of any of the rarer species is a desideratum, I would 

 mention that of Cynodon Dactylon, which I have seen in some abun- 

 dance in the month of August, on Kew Green, Surrey. This, if I 



* To llie above communications Mr. Gibson appends the following — " P.S. Do 

 not omit any part of the above note." We have however taken the liberty to omit an 

 entire paragraph, in which no allusion is made to the Carices in question : the remain- 

 der of Mr. Gibson's letter is printed verbatim. — Ed. 



