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yards on a sandstone outcrop of the coal-measures not far from 
the village of Iron Acton, West Gloucester. This, which in the 
Bristol district appears to be a decreasing or dying out species, 
has not been hitherto recorded for the county. 
Galium erectum Huds. y 
slope in the locality last mentioned. Only one other station in 
est Gloucester is known to us. Babington put the flowering 
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exceed two feet. The longer stems have one or more spreadl 
the latter generally divaricate in fruit. orolla larger than in 
Moliugo, with less distinct apiculi. Plant of a paler green. 
Carex divisa Huds. Is not mentioned in Top. Bot. for v.-c. 33 
or 34. An increasing patch of it has for some years under 
observation in St. Philip’s Marsh, Bristol, West Gloucester, not 
salt-marsh vegetation of the place. Unfortunately all must 
shortly disappear, from the extension of works and factories over 
the ground 
C. elata All. (stricta Good.). The only evidence tending to 
connect this much misunderstood species with our district or with 
the county of Somerset has rested on some unconfirmed reports 
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rset declined to accept. A few weeks ago we noticed a new 
sedge, densely tufted, upon the edge of some water-holes in a 
marsh between Wraxall and Tickenham, North Somerset, and are 
convinced that it is correctly determined as above. A. 
Bennett agrees, remarking that the specimens are less filamentose 
than usual. On going carefully into that matter we find that the 
character, in our gathering, is not so well marked on the flower- 
ing-stems as upon the barren shoots. And it is the delicate 
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than that given by Babington. By the Floras of Gremli and of 
