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the one should be said to have the fruit as in the other, as much as 

 that the normal form of C. teretiuscula should ever have been consi- 

 dered a mere variety of the truly distinct C. paniculata. 



In conclusion I beg to return my best thanks to Mr. Wilson for 

 the loan of his sketches and dissections ; as well as to those gentle- 

 men who have kindly furnished me with the numerous and beautiful 

 specimens which have been used in my investigations, and without 

 which my researches could not have been carried out. As my only 

 object in undertaking the task was the hope of eliciting truth, I shall 

 be happy to see in the pages of ' The Phytologist ' a record of the 

 results of similar researches prosecuted by other enquirers, and that, 

 too, whether such results may tend to establish or overthrow my pre- 

 sent conviction that the new plant is merely a variety of the species 

 usually known as C. teretiuscula, Good. 



Geo. Lbxford. 

 2, Ebenezer Row, Kennington Lane, 

 February, 1844. 



Art. CCVITI. — Note on the supposed idetitity of Carex fulva, Good- 

 enough, with C. speirostachya, Wahlenberg.* By Fra.ncis 

 BooTT, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



I HAVE been looking at Carex fulva of Goodenough, with a view to 

 the opinions of Sir James Smith and the continental botanists, who 

 make two species out of the plant originally described by Goodenough 

 in the second volume of the Linnean Transactions, 1792 : viz. — 



1. C. fulva. Good., and 



2. C. speirostachya, Wahl. 



C. Hornschuchiana, Hoppe, 8fc. 

 C. Hosteana, Dec. 8fc. 



Host, Wahlenberg, Swartz, Smith, Hoppe, Reichenbach, Koch, 

 Sprengel, Degland, Decandolle, Brebisson, Boreau, Desporte, Tuc- 

 kerman, Don, Macreight, admit two species. 



Goodenough, Schkuhr, Willdenow, Gaudin and Mutel notice only 

 C. fulva. 



CossoB and Germain, Delastre, and Sir W. J. Hooker make the 

 one a variety of the other. 



Kunth quotes Hoppe's plant, but was not acquainted with it. 



* Communicated by Edw. Forster, Esq., V.F.L.S., and published with Dr. Boott's 

 permission. We trust our readers will endeavour to aid Dr. Boott in this enquiry by 

 collecting and transmitting to him any specimens they may meet with. — Ed. 



