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proximity to it I have not yet had time to observe. I may further 
add that after having discovered it once, we found it again in two or 
three places along the coast, some miles distant from the place of first 
discovery. The perigynia in their fresh state were beautifully dotted 
all over, thus supplying to the plant its specific name, punctata.— 
James FRAsEr. 
Mr. Fras specimens are clearly identical with Irish 
C. punctata collected by Mr. A. G. More, and wi 
esea, 3 
Mr. Westcombe’s plant from the first county, of whicha few perigynia 
are in Boott’s herbarium, is the right thing, and that there is a 
th it. um 
station, near Whitehaven, was afterwards (Phytologist iv., p. 679) 
denied ; but it would be worth re-investigation, being just opposite 
iti events now k 
Bentham in his “ ook.” An exhaustive illustration is given in 
Dr. B ott’s great w on Carex, vol. iv., t. 500; plant is also 
figured in Syme’s “ English Botany,” Vol. ix. t,, 1671,-—Hewny 
_ Epmosrum roswarmirorium, Huenke.—It seems desirable again to 
direct attention to this plant, which was first announced as a native 
of Scotland in the “ Prospectus of the (unpublished) Flora Perthensis ” 
of the late Mr. John Robertson. Of this prospectus there were two 
issues—one in 1852, and the other in 1854. The fullest notice of this 
plant is contained in the former. After giving the specific character 
Mr. Robertson says :—‘* This very distinct species, hitherto only known 
? 
It has also been observed in one or two situations by the Ta 
) - 1 ; , where 
doubtless, it has been carried, like Erigeron alpinus, Saxifrags aizoides, 
and some of the alpine Veronica, to a lower level, by the impetuosity 
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