112 85. CYPEHACE^. 



Carex c^spitosa, " Linn.'' 



Area ? 



Incognit. This name is now restricted to a Carex 

 wliicli appears unknown to the botanists of Britain, al- 

 though one alleged by Fries to have been received as 

 Biitish from Dr. Greville, — indirectly, I presume, through 

 the Botanical Society of Edinburgh; and if so, of course 

 liable to the suspicion which unfortunately must be at- 

 tached, on no slender grounds, to labels issued from that 

 Society. Swedish specimens are in my herbarium, la- 

 belled as C. cfespitosa ; but examples of two species came 

 intermingled with the same label ; one, apparently, a state 

 or variety of C. vulgaris ; the other, different from any 

 British Carex that I have seen. 



1229. Carex rigida, Good. 



(C. saxatilis, Aut. Sitec.) 



Area [1] ***** 7 * * 10 11 13 13 14 15 16 17 18. 



South limit in Caernarvon, Durham. 



North limit in Shetland, Hebrides, Sutherland. 



Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 25. 



Latitude 53 — 61. Highland type of distribution. 



Agi'arian region. Midarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 500 j'ards, in North Highlands. 



Ascends to 1300 yards, in East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 41 — 34. 



Native. Pascual, Rupestral. Whether this Carex occurs 

 strictly within the limits of the East Lowlands, or not so, 

 may be questioned. According to Mr. William Stevens 



