fe NOTE ON CAREX FLAVA. 
slender; the bracts are reflexed, the lower one exceeding the long- 
stalked male s ike; the two female spikes are distant and oval- 
lengthened description of C. lepidocarpa, Tausch, wi 
H. 57, No. 8),in Sturm’s ‘ Deatechland’s Flora.’ He describes the 
sighs as fier the — of the stem, and as narrower than those 
1838 Bluff and Fingerhut give a description 
‘wick is ane ane: for word that of Tausch, and add ‘‘ Cr ap 
iisdem in locis, ubi C. flava et in ejus consortio . . C. 
proxime affinis, distinctam esse ferunt: culmo tenuiore snanlans 
longiore; foliis pip orca spica $ longius pedunculata, ee n- 
sc. spicam ? fructiferam longe superante ; spica ¢ ima exserte- 
un 
t hance, q yp 
forte nonnisi forme sint, ut ine ecice begs obear ane 
characterum differentialium pretium satius statuatur).” Bluff and 
Fing., pp. 648-9. 
To recapitulate, it will be seen that Bl. & Fing. distinctly state 
that Tausch’s plant is taller than C. flava, and that the stem is 
scabrous. hg and also Bluff and Fingerhut, state that the leaves 
W ause 
é fruit is reflexed. He says nothing about the size of the fruit, 
but under C. flava he states that the latter varies with large or 
small fruit. 
Now the Parkhurst Forest Carex has very broad leaves, as long 
as or even longer than the stem, a short sessile male spike, 
short and rai straight Sees ccapecr so opposed to those 
in the ge of the pe ad of the male spike, and in the fenath 
of the spike itself; in the number, position, and form of the female 
spikes, oe being crowded or more or less distant, oval, ovate, or 
obl orm; in the size of the fruit, in the narrowing at its 
base, in the length and direction of the beak, this being more or 
less ae ra and even sometimes straight. 
swell’s 6 Sederiphion n of C. flava as an aggregate is an ex- 
om 
continental botanists or with my own observations, and in con- 
formity with these I would describe the varieties proper thus 
* Notably in the upland boggy pastures of the Jura. 
