85. CYPERACEiE. 135 



1341, b. Carex vaginata, Tausch. 



Ai'ea #*##********** 15 16 17. 



South limit in Dumbarton, Perth, Forfar. 



North limit in Sutherland, Moray, Aberdeen. 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 8. 



Latitude 56—59. Highland type of distribution. 



Arctic region. Midarctic — Superarctic zones. 



Descends to 800 yards, less or more, in E. Highlands. 



Ascends to 1000 yards, and upwards, in same province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 39 — 36. 



Native. Eupestral. Hitherto found chiefly in the 

 counties of Perth, Forfar, and Aberdeen, within which it 

 occurs on many hills, passing shortly into Moray. Pro- 

 fessor Graham (Excurs. Sutherland, 1833) wrote, "I found 

 this plant on Speecanconick, and tliink there is no doubt 

 of its specific identity with C. panicea." Nearly twenty 

 years later, Mr. Alexander G. Duff wrote, " Ben Vouiich, 

 Loch Lomond, 25th July, 1851. This Carex, so far as I 

 know, has been only found hitherto on the mountains of 

 Clova and Braemar" (Bot. Gaz. iii. 140). It is doubtless 

 very excusable for a young botanist not to know half the 

 counties in which any given species of Carex has been 

 found, and repeatedly recorded ; but I do not understand 

 why he should thus make a special record of his own im- 

 perfect knowledge on the subject in a periodical, or why 

 the editor of a periodical should acquiesce in such an use- 

 less and (so far as it can have any influence) misleading 

 addition to the announcement of a locality. The writers 

 of the Phytologist, however, are greatly more faulty in this 

 way, than were those of the Botanical Gazette, although 

 this one illustration of a rather frequent botanical egotism 



