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cumstance ; but the species growing in the Httoral marshes there in- 

 variably proved to be QL. peiicedanifoha. The latter I also found, 

 this spring, growing plentifully in a wet part of the island pasture 

 called the Severn Ham, at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The sphe- 

 rical knobs on the roots of CE. pimpinelloides, extending some dis- 

 tance from the plant, are very characteristic when contrasted with the 

 elliptical sessile knobs of (E, peucedanifolia, and I have found them 

 pleasantly edible. They are not represented iu the 'English Botany' 

 figure. It is indispensible to examine the roots, for the radical leaves 

 of CE. pimpinelloides soon wither, and then the plant, without very 

 close investigation, can scarcely be distinguished from CK. peuceda- 

 nifolia. — Id. 



499. Note on Carex paradoxa ? While consulting Hooker's ' Com- 

 panion to the Botanical Magazine' on another subject, a few days 

 ago, I met with the following passage in Mr. Woods' interesting ac- 

 count of a ' Botanical Excursion in the North of England,' in 1835. 

 As it relates to plants which have recently caused a good deal of dis- 

 cussion, I think it entitled to a place in ' The Phytologist.' Mr. 

 Woods says : — " Rosa Doniana grows at the top of a woody bank a 

 little above Croft, on the Yorkshire side of the river [Tees] ; and near 

 Halnaby, on the same side, there is a small strip of boggy ground, 

 mostly covered with brush-wood, on the left hand of the road from 

 Croft, which affords Ranunculus Lingua, and a Carex, which is per- 

 haps a small variety of C. paniculata, but not forming dense tufts, and 

 therefore in some degree approaching to C. teretiuscula. The beak 

 also is not abrupt, as described in C. paniculata, but tapers gradually 

 from the fruit. Hooker (Brit. Fl. ed. 3. p. 395) mentions a continen- 

 tal species, C. paradoxa, which is intermediate between these two. 

 That species, however, is described as forming very large and dense 

 tufts (see Gaudin, Fl. Helv. 6. 43), and therefore can have nothing to 

 do with this plant. Some difficulty has arisen from the figure of C. 

 teretiuscula in ' English Botany,' where the scales are altogether 

 brown, whereas, according to Gaudin, /. c. the scales of C. teretiuscu- 

 la in a young state have uniformly a whitish border. In my plant 

 they have a pretty wide scariose margin." Which of the two plants 

 can this be — C. paradoxa, which is now known to grow in another 

 part of Yorkshire, or the variety of C. teretiuscula? Will Mr. Woods 

 kindly examine his specimens, and favour the readers of ' The Phy- 

 tologist ' with the resvdt. Or the plant may be still growing in the 

 locality where Mr. Woods met with it, and may perhaps be found by 



