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A NEW IRISH SEDGE. 
By R. Luoyp Praraer, B.E., M.R.IA. 
(PuatE 332). 
CarE RuyNoHOoPHYsA, Which I have now the pleasure of addin 
to the British flora, is a large and handsome plant, closely resembling 
C. rostrata, of which some of the continental author ities me 
described it as a variety. I am indebted to the kindness of 
Arthur Bennett for the nee ‘adaption, synonymy, &c. :— 
Carex rhynchophysa C, A. Meyer in Ind. sem. oak bot. Imp. 
Petrop. No. 9, suppl. p. 9 (184 4). 
pull = ae robusta Weinmann, Enum. stirp. agr. Petrop. 
p- 92. commen’, 
C. bullata Schr, 8. levirostris M. N. Blytt, Fl. Chr., ex Fries, 
Mantissa, ii. 59 (18 39). 
avirostris Fries in Bot. Notiser, p. 24 (1844). 
C. oimitiede B. obesa Hartmann ; Handb. Skand, Flora, ed. 5 
1849 
C. rhynchophysa Liebman, Mexican Halv. p. 76, 1850, is quite 
a aa plant, and is C. physorhyncha Steudel, Cyper. Plant. 
219, 1855.) 
Exsiccata. —Fries; Herb. Normale, fase. 6, No. 74; Herb. Fi. 
net 
res.—Flora ‘Danica aur 1, t. 386 (1858); Anderson, 
- 108 (1849). 
trib. — Finland (10 provinces); Russia, Perm, Wiiitka, 
province of Ingermanland (St. Petersburg); Norway, Lapland, 
Sweden, provinces of Vermland, Ostrobothnia, and Vesterbotten. 
Silesia, Transylvania. Indicated also in Siberia by Gmelin ; 
avuria. 
Plant er pes ge 24-34 in. high; leaves 2-3 in. med 
tapering-acute at the apex, as long as, or longer than, the culm 
sabrid on the bes the sheaths of the lower leaves rpoies those of 
middle ones closed; culms erect, semiterete at t ase, tri- 
an arom in the middle, and from the lowest t spike Sprapie usually 
pie ont pla bracts very leafy, longer than the male spikes; spikes 
outwards ab the yer me en ered erect, the lowest with a 
€ uppe 
scarious at the apex; glumes of the male flowers lanceolate and 
aiioulate, oe yellowish brown, with scarious edges; fruit globose, 
— a ing into a rather long cleft re with ney 
dive Bent with 10-12 fine nerves (prominent o only w 
dried}, Spllowiah when ripe, the apex of os spikes often etruned 
Journat or Botany.—Von. 31. [Fes. 1 
