PHANEROGAMIA. 



Class 2. MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 Div. 3. GLUMIFERJE. 



CYPERACE^B. 



CYPERUS. Linn. 

 817. C. longus. L. 



Native at Walton-in-Gordano, S. 



This rare and beautiful sedge has grown from time 

 immemorial in a small plot of very wet marshy 

 ground, believed to have been anciently a fish-pond, 

 and situate behind some cottages in the upper part 

 of the village. Sole, in a MS. dated 1782, says of 

 it, " Abundantly in a pond at Walton-in-Gordano, 

 near Possit, Somerset, a village belonging to Sir 

 Abraham Elton" (Possit = Portishead). The plant 

 continued to be plentiful until 1882, when the 

 occupier of the land ploughed it and planted 

 potatoes. At the end of August, 1883, we found 

 many stems coming up by the sides of two ditches 

 which intersect the field, and also among the crop ; 

 but in consequence of the disturbance their de- 

 velopment was much retarded, and flowering 

 delayed nearly two months. Since that time, 



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