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of them by swimming. This excursion was well rewarded. 
plant was found in almost sole possession of the islet, which lies on 
the southern side of the Quoile estuary, almost opposite Delamont, 
Summing up our present information regarding the range of this 
interesting plant, it is found to have its headquarters in the Quoile 
estuary, in the south-western corner of Strangford Lough. Thence 
regions around Ardmillan, Comber, Newtownards, and Greyabbey, 
it is, so far as at present known, an absentee. Then, in addi- 
tion, there is the (at present) isolated station at Cloghey, outside 
Strangford Lough. An examination of the Strangford islands will 
probably supply further information, and on this point I hope to 
report later. I hav thank Dr. Rendle for examini ome 
doubtful specimens. While normal G. festuceformis looks utterly 
different from normal G. maritima, the group Atropis is, as Prof. 
Hackel wrote when first naming the Irish plant, a critical one, and 
Carex PR&cox Jacq.—During the last three years I have found 
owing in two boggy places near Tunbridge Wells, which 
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at first also by Mr. C. B. Clarke; but on taking him further speci- 
mens, he decided against that species, and sent the specimens to 
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Perhaps a note of the difference which seems to exist in the plant 
