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Original Articles. 
A NEW VARIETY OF CAREX PILULIFERA, L. _ 
By Henry N. Rivtey, B.A., F.L.S. 
(Tas. 218). 
been added to the British Museum Herbarium, and have been 
placed in my hands 
‘Science Gossip’ for December last and reproduced at p. 24 of this 
al, Carex Saxumbra. He ; 
specimens, ‘“ You will observe its affinity wi é pilulifera, of 
s 
Watson and Mr. Baker coincided, however, in the opinion that it 
was worth naming. .....- It grew in very large tufts, in deep 
shade, from the crevices and on the overhanging escarpments of 
red grit rocks, overhung and overgrown with cotch fir, wych 
elm, and oak The leaves are narrow, deep bright green, with 
reddish brown sheaths at base, long fibrous roots, and long leafy 
bracts.” Th t is undoubtedly a variety of Carex pilulifera, as 
ably long and curved, extending far beyond the terminal spikelet, 
long and slender. The male spikelet is shorter and darker in 
colour than in the normal variety. The nut differs from that of 
typical pilulifera in its longer beak, larger size, and longer, almost 
if ape; the down with which it is covered is also shorter 
and scantier. The glume is red, with a dorsal green projecting 
form are those of th d th S ( 
some extent at least correlated with the locality in which this plant 
t) 
N.s. vou. 10. [Apriz, 1881.] 
