THE EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF CAREX CANESCENS 371 
to be founded on specimens of “ Carex canescens var. robusta” 
collected by Blytt, of which there are small and immature 
examples in Herb. Kew. and Herb. Mus. Brit., much more similar 
to the common form than Andersson 
pre 
y no means be reasonably applied to the alpine form of the 
Scottish Highlands vA a hy yme, and incorrectly called 
Wa 
sent a series of these ee specimens to Rev. G. Kikenthal who 
of the plant given by Syme in vol. x. t. 1632.—A dwarf form, 
barely 20 cm. high, as near the Bishop of Worcester’s palace, 
Hartlebury A N. Fra 
f. LONGIFOLIA. 
Folia sc As sat vel multum longiora 
Hab. range ; Nort bumberland (Winch, 1830, in Herb. 
neeus’s description of C. canescens is brief, and not very 
Gharcterittic :—“ ' Carex spiculis subrotundis remotis sessilibus 
um ; also n.10. The siti | is, 
however, ae sd C. brizoides”’ but is not the C. brizoides of Sp. 
Plant. 1382. 
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or 
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Var. ote TENUIS in Linnea, xxiv. 538 (1851). 
Omnino tenuior gracilior et coe stricta. Folia angustiora, 
margine scabra. 1 fase 4-5, pauc: 
: ery common. Meigland ' Hartle ebury in Worces- 
tershire (Fraser). Swede en: Wexid (Scheutz). Russia; Jitomir, 
in the government of Volhynia (Golde). In a wet copse near 
Erlangen, in Bavaria found a matted mass of this plant 
with eighteen culms ona single tuft. 
iL a lama Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. ii. 2, 
61 pas 
Spic cula infima a bractea longa yan: versus setacea subtenta, 
hacce bractea ciereshies subulata 
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