CAREX CANESCENS 303 
but C. canescens is based not on the plant of Flora Lapponica 
but on that described in Flora Suecica, a work not quoted by 
Mr. Marshall. 
he confusion respecting C. polygama (C. Buxbaumit) has 
been long known; for instance, es (Cyp. nt oe p- 58, 
1849) says :-—“ Auctores Anglici Linneum C. canescentis nomine 
C. brizoideum v. C. Buxbaumit intelesisso sontondust quare 
ron a = canescentem C. curtam dixerunt. Que transmutatio 
nomin e minime insolita speciminum, que in herbario 
Linn. oe ates: evidenter orta est, quare nomen a botanicis 
suecicis semper adhibitum heic jure recepimus.’” Wahlenberg, 
lytt, Hartman, vee ar and the great majority of European 
botanists use the name C. canescens in this sense. But if, for the 
sake of sxgument ~ say that C. canescens L. is too vague a name 
to be used, would it be permissible to write C. canescens Lighté.? 
I do not ek so. Hudson, in Flora Anglica, 1762, has a 
C. canescens which is C. divulsa, and this would then come into 
sepes et in aie s humidis,” excludes C. canescens L. Moreover, 
in ed. 2, Hudson adds the synonyms from Micheli, already — 
which oem C. divulsa. In fact, the C. canescens Huds. of 
both editions, despite the reference to Flora wots 285, in 
the later one, which is that cited in Index Kew. = C. divulsa 
Stokes 
Indeed, von (l.c. ) dae | C. canescens, bases it on the 
plant of Sp. Pl. p. 1383, cites Micheli of eae 70, n. 5, t. 33, f. 18), 
Loesel (Fl. Pruss. vat t. 32. eos) and Oed er (Fi. Dan. t. 285 ?), 
and gives it the name “ White Carex.” He says “this is un- 
doubtedly the Sani which Ray (Stirp. Angl. 423) intends by 
‘Gramen cyperoides palustre elegans spica er asperiore,’ 
which some authors make to be a synonym of C. brizoides L., 
which we have never yen to found in Great Britain.” 
Stokes (With. Nat. Arr. ii. 1035, 1787) calls his C. divulsa the 
Grey Carex, quotes Micheli’ 8 on a cited by Hudson, for his 
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and Linneeus by saying that the serail in #4 characterized as having 
bluntish Se ”*; in the former they are “ pointed, upright.” 
Its habitat being “moist shady est in woods and hedges,’ 
and Stoked adds, ‘‘also in meadows.” Withering, folioting 
Pollich, uses the name C. cinerea for C. canescens L. Gooden nough 
(Zrans. Linn. Soc. 1. ¢.), it is true, describes C. curta as a distinct 
species, because, influenced by a specimen in Herb. Banks, 
thought C. canescens L. = C. brizoides L. His own wor rds are:— As 
figure of Loesel to his canescens, but, I have always thought, with- 
out sufficient authority ; and I am happy in being countenanced in 
this idea by our worthy President’s remarks in his He of the 
