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has accomplished so much, and that our countryman's labours are so 

 highly valued and so honorably mentioned by the author, who of all 

 living men is the most capable of appreciating them. 



The work is beautifully illustrated with copper-plate engravings, a 

 glance at which will be sufficient to convince a botanist of the value 

 of the genera which the author has proposed, and at the same time 

 will show the great importance of the fruit in distinguishing these in- 

 teresting plants. 



Art. CCXLVII. — Correspondence relative to Carex parudoxa, 8fc. 



As the following communications relate to subjects which have 

 lately been discussed in our pages, we have thought it better to in- 

 clude them all under one general head. 



Hebden-bridge, September 9, 1844. 



Sir, 



I now beg of you to favour me with the insertion in 

 ' The Phytologist,' of the following remarks on Mr. Luxford's note 

 (Phytol. 1081). Mr. Luxford says that he deems it his duty to take 

 up the cudgels, in behalf of two of his correspondents, and in one in- 

 stance to expose something which appears to him like a mistake 

 which I have made. 



I shall not say here that 1 do not vert/ often make mistakes, but I 

 shall say that I have made no mistake about the discovery of Carex 

 paradoxa in Ascham bogs. If Mr. Luxford will just refer to Mr. 

 Spruce's note (Phytol. 842), he will find that that gentleman, in April, 

 1841, only discovered this plant as it had been discovered before, 

 that is, as Carex teretiuscula. Mr. Spruce tells us that he at that 

 time referred it, "though doubtfully, to C. teretiuscula." This may 

 be correct ; — Mr. Spruce might have some doubts as to the specific 

 identity of the plant; — but when he sent it to his friends in 1841, he 

 sent it under the name of C. teretiuscula, without expressing such a 

 doubt. In June, 1828, I gathered this plant (Carex paradoxa) in As- 

 cham bogs ; but at that time having no description of C. paradoxa, I 

 was, the same as Mr. Baines and Mr. Spruce, under the necessity of 

 referring it to C. teretiuscula. And as Mr. Spruce concludes his note 

 by telling us that C. teretiuscula does not grow nearer to York than 

 Terrington Car, which is fifteen miles distant, and Ascham bogs being 

 only three miles distant from York, it leaves no doubt of the plant 



