LUZULA PALLESCENS BESSER AS A BRITISH PLANT 119 
as se formed by the combination of L. campestris and its allies, 
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and inner perianth-segments, but Dr. Buchenau does not agree 
with this view, observing (Engler, Pflanzenr. iy. 36 p. 85) ‘sed id 
ihi ,” and from what we know 
of the plants we do not think the character in question is suffi- 
ciently important to outweigh the numerous other differences 
between them. It appears to us that L. pallescens diverges from 
L. multiflora in the opposite direction from L. sudetica. 
Europe L. pallescens occurs in Norway, Sweden, Lapland, 
Finland, Russia, Galicia, Poland, Moravia, Bohemia, and Eastern 
Germany. Buchenau also records it fro 
Japan. The discovery of the plant in Britain considerably extends 
the western limit of its known distribution. As Mr. unnybun 
has suggested, the tiny seeds may well have been brought from 
one of the European localities in mud on the feet of waterfowl in 
past ages, when the fenland was much more extensive and Whittle- 
sea Mere still in existence, and when no doubt there were many 
more species of bird visitors. The Huntingdonshire plant 
© occur in other similar situations, more especially as much of 
the fenland is difficult of access and has probably never been fully 
explored for plants. 
have not been able to come across in any of the books a 
apparently the pallid form of L. multiflora. The plate which 
accompanies this paper was drawn from the Huntingdonshire 
: EXPLANATION OF Puate 496. 
Luzula pallescens Bess. from Woodwalton Fen, Hunts. 
a. Plant, natural size. 0. Perianth with fruit, x 12. c. Outer perianth- 
segments, x 12. d, Inner perianth-segments, x 12. ¢. Seeds, x 12. 
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