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CYPERUS FUSCUS IN DORSET AND HANTS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A. 
Regis, in Dorset, having been stimulated to look for it by its recent 
detection in South Hants. If there were any ground for suspicion 
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England, if not further north; for it is most improbable that we 
should have hit on the only two localities in this part of the 
country. This Cyperus is very easily overlooked. Mr. J.C. Mansel- 
Pleydell tells me that he has more than once examined the very 
ground where I detected it, and seen nothing of it. This is not 
surprising: the marsh was, from what I could learn, less watery 
than usual, after the prolonged drought of last summer; an the 
little sedge is so inconspicuous, and so often half-buried in the loose 
herbage, that I doubt if I should have found it myself but for having 
it on the brain. About a fortnight later I happened to be in the 
same district again, and found, at a fresh spot nearly two miles 
with very numerous stems, and full of ripening seed, which would, 
I hope, secure the propagation of the plant for other years. 
Sir J. D. Hooker states that the plant was naturalised at the 
Chelsea station.* Some doubt has even been cast on the Surrey 
locality, as possibly not native. 
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evidence now, whic 
is no just suspicion, as native also. atior 
from its indigenous occurrence in these two adjoining counties, 
Dorset and Hants, is that the sedge 1s native, too, on Shalford 
a se isles, but to find it so rarely. A plant that 
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not to find 36 an pera fe hole continent, from Middle and South 
ia to 1. 
the shores of the Mediterranean and the Levant, may well be 
. three southern counties of 
England; and further research, i War 
will be very likely to justify the expectation. 
Journ. Bot. 1871, pp. 148, 212. 
* (See, for further information on this point, 
. Journ. Bor. ] 
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