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DISCOVERY OF CAREX MONTANA, ETC., 
IN DERBYSHIRE. 
CHARLES WATERFALL, 
des Hague, Renishaw, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 
Axsour five miles from Renishaw there are what is known as 
Markland Grips, near Clowne. Their geological formation is 
magnesian limestone, and they are three in number, running almost 
parallel one with the other, and resembling three immense valleys 
that have been hollowed out in the far distant past by some superior 
natural agency as by glacial action. 
Some four years ago, I went to ‘the Grips’ with a party and 
strolling about I found a Carex which was new to me. I sent it to 
Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, and he named it Carex 
montana L. I reported it to the Rev. W. H. Painter, of Knypersley, 
near Congleton, who was then engaged in bringing out his Flora of 
Derbyshire ; he asked for a specimen, which I sent him, and /e sent 
it to Mr. Bennett, who again passed it as C. montana. The Rev. W. H. 
Painter then asked for some specimens for the Exchange Club of the 
British Isles, and he sent me word that the critics of that Club had 
passed Carex montana as being correct ; so I think there can be no 
mistake that the plant is what it is set up to be. 
or the last two or three years I have found it plentifully on the 
edge of a wood in ‘the Grips,’ and it seems to me likely to be 
a permanency. So far as I know this is the only habitat of Carex 
montana in Derbyshire. 
It grows along with other carices and grasses and plants generally. 
It looks very much like C. Ai/udifera while growing, but if it be dug 
up with a fork—so as to get the root intact—it will be found to agree 
with Babington’s Manual, 8th edition, in the root being fibrous from 
a shaggy branched rhizome and also that the lowest sheaths of the 
plant are red. 
The leaves are easily distinguished from the surrounding plants 
when one gets used to looking for them and they are about the same 
height as the fruit, thus differing from C. piludifera, where the fruiting 
stem is from ro to 12 inches long and curved at the fruiting end, 
this stem being straighter than that of pz/udifera. 
ng other plants zz ‘the Grips’ I found Axthriscus sylvestris 
Cynoglossum officinale, Ophrys muscifera and on my w ay there I found, 
among others, Blackstonta (or Chlora) perfoliata and Triglochin palustre. 
uring the summer I found the following plants at or about 
Quarry Dam Park Hall Woods: Ranunculus circinatus, Carex remota, 
C. vestcaria, and, in n woods, Serratula tinctoria and vat. inonticola, 
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