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a disused small path until I emerged on the shore. So 

 far, no likely ground ; and the brushwood so thick as 

 to impede one's progress even along the path. Vicia 

 tetrasperma (smooth tare), Hypericum androsaemum (St. 

 John's wort), and Carex remota grew by the pathside. I then 

 turned back close to the stream, and made my way into the 

 jungle of rushes and sedges which I had in previous years 

 searched. Here the bushes are less thick, and in the open 

 spaces the ground is covered by a dense growth of rank 

 marsh vegetation : in most cases these open parts are very 

 near to the stream- side, and are only up a part of the 

 sloping bank. At once appeared lots of Carex remota; 

 C. vulpina in immense profusion ; C. sylvatica, C. panicea, 

 and C. glauca ; and at last one very large and fine tuft of 

 C. axillaris not boenninghauseniana. This was close to 

 the stream, not more than 150 yards from the shore. I 

 believe very nearly, if not exactly, the place indicated for 

 boenningh. Near it C. divulsa again, and plenty of remota, 

 but no more C. axillaris, and not a sign of C. boenningh. 

 anywhere in this part of the thicket, which I most care- 

 fully explored from nearly the walls to the shore, and as 

 high up as the bushes would let me. Along the north 

 shore I tried again among the slipped clay wherever it 

 was damp, but could find scarce a Carex except sylvatica 

 and glauca. Here again, the bushes are almost impene- 

 trable, but I do not think the spot about here is at all so 

 likely as that near the stream. It is hard to reconcile 

 Bromfield's account of the locality and the abundance of 

 the plant with my experience. I believe the stream-side 

 jungle to be the right spot, yet here is no abundance of 

 axillaris or boenningh. ; but in a cursory glance around, 

 the large plants of C. remota look just like axillaris, and 

 a person gathering axillaris in one spot might conclude 

 the other plants to belong to the species. Dr. Bromfield's 

 description agrees with my plant of axillaris, and I believe 

 that species only grows at Quarr, and near Ryde, while 

 Boenninghauseniana grows at Newchurch." 



For the time being it did not seem as if any further 

 light could be thrown on those Carices. But as a curious 



