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1 8 Alexander Goodman More. [~1884 



January loth. 



DEAR SIR, Many thanks for the specimen of Carex which arrived 

 yesterday. It seems to agree fairly with some Scottish specimens, and 

 I have also a plant from the Thames side resembling it. It will now be 

 worth while to look up the North of Ireland stations for Carex acuta to 

 see what they are. 



In any case your Carex is a most interesting addition. And I think 

 you should lose no time in sending a short notice to the "Journal of 

 Botany," so as to have it put on record at once 

 Carex aquatilis in Ireland 



just mentioning as you did to me the circumstances, and by whom 

 identified through A. Bennett. And you had better send the notice at 

 once, or it will be too late for February. I will make the slight altera- 

 tion as you wish in your paper. It will not be read on Monday next, 

 but the meeting after that. Yours very truly, 



A. G. MORE. 



The desired notice was sent, and appeared in the 

 "Journal of Botany " for February, 1885 (p. 49). Not the 

 least interesting "circumstance" of Mr. Stewart's dis- 

 covery was told in its concluding sentences : 



The discovery of this Sedge is associated in my memory with 

 mournful recollections. It was found on the Qth of August, 1883, the 

 same day, and about the same hour, when two young and ardent 

 naturalists were being drowned, while botanizing on Lough Gill, in the 

 adjoining county of Sligo. The furious gusts of wind and rain which 

 drove me to seek the most sheltered spots, and thus compelled me to 

 meet with this plant, were at the same time doing to death my young 

 friend Corry, with his bright promise of future distinction, and his equally 

 enthusiastic companion, Dickson. 



