374 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
lat. 71° 6’ at Nordkyn in the amt of Finmarken, in Arctic Norway 
(Norman), and is a common plant on the bleak and desolate Kanin 
peninsula, in lat. 66° 10’, N. Russia (Pohle, in Act. Hort. Petro- 
polit. xxi. 88 [1893]). In Arctic Norway it ascends to 503 m. 
above the Folden fjord (Norman). 
ICONOGRAPHY. 
Plukenet, Phytographia, t. 34, f. 4 (1691), Gramen cyperoides 
elegans, spicé composita molli.”"—This is the earliest figure of the 
species. 
Fiudbeck, Campi Elysii, ii. f. 34 (1701).—Of this sumptuous 
work probably not more than eight copies are in existence, the issue 
bei 
small one, but clearly indicates the plant we know under the name 
have been recognized as the same plant by Dillen in his edition of 
Ray’s Synopsis, p. 423 (1724). It was probably this taking up of 
Gottsched’s name by Linnzus instead of Ray’s plant described 
e gli 
silvery-white spikelets” (Smith, English Fl. iv. 81) the name of 
C. curta, in his paper read before the Linnean Society on 3rd April 
1792. i i 
Herborn. ed. 1. p. 197, t. 14, £.7 (1775) ; ed. 2, p. 200, 
"__A good of a sepa 
born, in the province of 
Hessen-Nassau, Germany. From the description the spikes bear 
Schkuhr, Bot. Hand. ed. 2, iy. p- 50, t. 286, C, n. 13 (1793-94) ; 
Beschr. Abb. Riedgr. p. 43, t. CG, f. 13 (1801)—A very good 
coloured figure of the common form. 
wlldenow, Carices Berolinenses, in Mem. Acad. Roy. Sc. 
Berlin, 1794, xix. t. 2, f. 3 (1799).—Reprinted as a tract, “Ueber 
(798) der Gegend von Berlin wildwachsenden Rietgras-Arten ”’ 
Host, Ic. deser. Gramin. Austr. i. 37, t. 48 (1801)—An excel- 
lent coloured plate. The figure represents a plant in which the 
leaves are longer than the culm; it is therefore f. longifolia. 
owerby, Engl. Bot. ed. 1, xx. t. 1386 (Nov. 1804); ed. 3, x. 
m 101, t. 1631 (1870), and t. 1632 (var. fallax).—The original 
