tion oct J0? of the British Islands,” Dr. Hooker, while giving 
N. Amos et mariti pidee W. Siberia, 
SCIRBPUS TRIQUETER, LINN,, IN SOUTHERN CHINA, 329 
SCIRPUS TRIQUETER, Irxyx., IN SOUTHERN CHINA. 
pr it. ts pe a: ETC, 
on examination eee y distinct from any of those occurring in this 
neighbourhood. A — or two were forwarded to Kew, where 
glumes—the larger, paler, lenticular achene and 2-cleft style—com- 
pelled me to didsont from Mr. Baker’s ‘Ghinie, and left a strong con- 
Viction in my mind that the Chinese plant is identical with the 
European S. triqueter, Linn. (S. Pollichit, Godr. & Gren. ) A subsequent 
Comparison with specimens of the latter from Strasburg, distributed 
under n. 1083 in Billot’s “Flora Gallie et Germanie exsiccata,” for 
the communication of which I am indebted to Dr. Trimen, leaves ap- 
differen no room : doubt the eit ae — ed conclusion; the sole 
* , any, 
extreme south of Denmark, throughout France, in Englan 
northern and central Italy, perhaps in the Morea and the SCpdadan 
in Hungary and Trans lvania, and as far eastward as the Circassian 
_ Provinces, “white its progress in that direction appears to be abruptly 
Though recorded from Po rtugal, its presence in the Iberian 
Compend. Cyb. Brit., 360; An- 
alec th Syll. fl. Europ., 390; Watson, Compe: y in FL 
- Sc Led b., Fl. Ross., iv., 248 ; Tchihatche 
andin., 7 ; e Paspase i 
i. {Mini a7; Parlat., FL. Ital., ii, 933 Willk. ge, m, fi, Hisp., 
us that, in his ** Stu- 
306. It is some ewhat curio ete fe 
N. bh 
triqueter only ‘* a 
in botany to 
XXxiiL., 
ar southwards.” ‘This would matraly lead a tyro in 
that the species is not found out of Europe 
