CYPEEACEJ!. 303 



Requires confirmation. The specimen is correctly named, and the plant 

 not very unlikely to occur, being found in Essex, though not in Herts or 

 Bucks, nor recently in Surrey. Still, transposition of labels or some 

 other cause of error may have occurred. Liable to be passed over as 

 Carex disticka, 



ERIOPHOEUM, Linn. 



735. E. polystacbion, L. E. angustifolium, Roth. (L. Cat.). Cotton 

 Grass. 



Gramen tomentarium (Ger., Blaekst.). Jiincus hombycinus, Loh. (Johns.). 

 Gram, juncoides lanatum (Park.). Gr. tomentosum pratense panic, 

 sparsd (Merr.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 83. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 

 Bogs on heaths ; rare. P. April, May. 

 I. Harefield ; Blaekst. Fasc. 39. 

 in. Piece of heathy ground by Dockwell Lane, near Hatton, 1867 ; a 

 single specimen. 



IV. Bog at further end of Hampstead ! ; Ger. 27, Johns. Eric, Park. 



Theat. 1272, Merr. 59. [Highgate Park; Ger. 27.] Still abundant 

 in the bog behind Jack Straw's Castle. 

 First record: Gerarde, 1597. 



CAREX, Linn. 



736. C. pulicaris, L. 



Gramen Cyperoides ptdicare, Merr. (Blaekst.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 89. Eeich. Ic. Germ. viii. 195. Hook. Curt. vol. v. 

 Marshy places on heaths ; very rare. P. June. 



I. Harefield Moor, plentifully ; Blaekst. Fasc. 35. Harrow Weald 

 Common in several places. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Huds. i. 347, Irv. Lond. Fl. 90. 

 First record : Blackstone, 1737. 



737. C. distlcba, Huds. C. intermedia. Good. (L. Cat.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 101. Reich. Ic. Germ. viii. 210. 



Wet places ; rare. P. May, June. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Newh. Euislip Moor. 



11. In a marshy meadow near Teddington, 1792, E. F.; Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 IV. Woods, Hampstead ; Irv. Lond. Fl. 90. 



V. Near the canal, Brentford ; Hemsley {v. s.). 

 VI. Edmonton. 



First record : E. Forster, 1792. 



738. C. dlvisa, Huds. 



Cyb. Br. iii. 103. Reich. Ic. Germ. viii. 205. 

 Meadows by the Thames ; very rare. P. May, June. 

 VII. Isle of Dogs, plentifully, L. W. Dillwyn ; B. G. 411, Cooper 115. 

 [Petiver says he observed either this or C. disticka in Hackney Marsh ; 



