CYPERACE^. 215 



RHYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. 



819. R. alba, VaU. 



Native ; in turfy bogs, very local. 



S. About the boggy sources of streams on Mendip 

 at Blackdown. Plentiful in peat-moors on the 

 southern border of the district. VII. VIII. 



820. R. fusca, 8m. 



Native ; on peat-moors, perhaps now extinct. 



S. " Burtle Moor, near Mark." W. Sole, MS. 1782. 

 See also remarks by Mr. Thos. Clark in his Cata- 

 logue of the Rarer Plants of the Turf Moors of 

 Somerset. 



ELEOCHARIS, R. Br. 



821. E. palustris, R. Br. 



Native ; in marshy places, ditches, and about ponds. 

 Common. VI. VII. 



822. E. multicaulis, Sm. 



Native ; in marshy places, less frequent than the last. 



VII. 



SCIRPUS. Linn. 



823. S. maritimus, L. 



Native ; plentiful in brackish ditches and salt 

 marshes, by the sides of the Channel and tidal 

 rivers, sometimes occurring two or three miles 

 inland. VI. VII. 



824. S. sylvaticus, L. 



Native ; in damp meadows, rare. 



G. " Boiling Well ! " Mangotsfield. 



S. Abundant in a meadow under Highbury Hill, 

 near Hallatrow. A marshy field near Wells, Miss 

 Livett. " In wet places, frequent ; " Fl. Bathon. 



VII. 



