THE EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF CAREX CANESCENS 373 
aadaeg (PY some caricologists. This Lapland plant, defined by 
Linneus as “C. spicis plurimis remotis sessilibus subrotundis 
turgidis,” sues included by him in the synonyms of C. canes- 
cens, is C. brunnescens Poiret, first described by Persoon as C. 
curta var. inunnescons ( ):= C. canescens var. alpicola Wahlenb. 
aC, Pan i Sieber exs. 1821 (according to an authentic speci- 
men aria “this date in a Kew.) = C. alpicola Blytt (1903). 
On the other hand, C. vitilis Fries, which Babington seemed to 
ant, is b 
made a variety o runnescens Poiret, which, however, appa- 
rently unaware of Babi ington’s error, they incorrectly state to be 
found in pret? nd. 
ecimens in Herb. Brit. this var. fallax seems to have 
been first ence aed by Robert Brown in 1794. There are three 
gatherings of the same date :—(1) boggy ground, side of the hill 
be deenshire ; 
ringly in bogs on the tops of the hills pares the head of Clova 
and Invereauld, Aberdeenshire; (3) marshy grounds about three 
hundred feet below the summit, pada oa loch, of Ben Lawers, 
Breadalbane. Other specimens in Herb. Brit. are from Clova 
(Wm. Gardiner, 1849), gue s sen moe Clova a N. ae 
ree he 
610-915 m. (1832), and another from Lochnagar, above the pre- 
cipice on the north aa, within 46 m. of the summit (Syme, 1851). 
a sag Kew. are specimens from the rocks of Craig Chailleach, 
ong the mountains of the Breadalbane district of See 
UJ. Ball, 1850). Other a include Ben Lawers 
1100 m. Oe 3 er oaes in Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 1897, ii. 519), en 
careful comparison I find that they are certainly typical ego 
and not var. fallax; and a — note by the late a ci B. — 
on another sheet Pas to confirm my opinion. The noth 
plant, then, is confined, in Britain, to alpine erations in 1 four 
Highland counties— Angus, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, and Ros 
shire. Examples I have seen from Ben Vrackie in eeibataté 
ee Hay) belong also to this meee tgs so labelled by 
. A. Ley from the Cumberlan d hills d The extension 
Sitocn: in Europe of C. canescens is soeemeo ase It reaches 
