85. CYPERACE^. 103 



give this as a sea-side Carex at all, merelj^ writing "sandy 

 places," as if it had no paiticular connexion with the coast, 

 which it most assuredly has. 



1219. Carex divisa, Huds. 



Ai-ea 1234*678* 10*** [14 15]. 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in S.E. York, N.E. Lincoln, Flint. 



Estimate of provinces 8. Estimate of counties 20. 



Latitude 50 — 54. English tjTpe of distrihution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the sea level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends, at the sea level, to Humber. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 49. 



Native. Littoral, Paludal. As with so many other spe- 

 cies of Carex, several false stations would seem to have 

 been recorded for tliis one. Li Hooker's Flora Scotica, 

 on the suspicious testimony of George Don, it is stated 

 to occur on a "marsh near Montrose, and sea-coast of 

 Angus-shii-e, chiefly in marshy places." Tliis short sen- 

 tence asserts the existence of three stations at least (a 

 marsh plus marshy places), and indirectly implies them to 

 be more numerous. Yet neither Mr. Gardiner nor any 

 other botanist appears to have verified or confirmed any 

 one station in the county of Forfar. But as the kind of 

 situation described, is that in which the Carex divisa does 

 usually grow, the Author of the Flora Scotica might be 

 held quite excused for printing the locality unchallenged, 

 at a time when he himself was slenderly acquainted with 

 the botany of Scotland, and when the accuracy of George 

 Don had not been subjected to those disparaging doubts 

 which it has appeared since so much to warrant. When, 



