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much inflated, strongly ribbed, the lower with an abruptly deflexed 

 beak. It is what we have regarded as the type, and differs much 



in appearance from C. lepidocarpa Tausch. 



C. distans. Inscribed " Cyperoides, vol. 3, p. 77 [or 22, I am 

 not sure which] , No. 5 Seguier." The sheet is, I think, our 



I inland-rfi'stons \ and not the coast-plant (G. neglecta DegL). 



20. C. atrata. Against the type- specimen is pencilled " non 

 vera/' and (in another hand) "ustulata" (atrofusca Schkuhr), 

 which is correct. The description in Spec. Plant, proves that this 

 was an error of identification. An attached sheet consists of two 

 specimens of C. pulla Good, and one of young but very charac- 

 teristic C. rigida Good. 



19. G. saxatilis. The type-sheet (annotated " sic videtur ") 

 and a second unnamed sheet are both excellent pulla. The cita- 

 tion in Spec. Plant, ed. 1, from Fl. Lapp, cannot be anything else ; 

 nor does the description (quoted from Fl. Suec.) appear contra- 

 dictory. Taking into account the specimen of G. rigida above- 

 mentioned, I am convinced that G. saxatilis L. ought to displace 

 C. pulla Good., rather than C. rigida Good. 



29. C. panicea. The type-specimen is our usual form. A 

 second sheet belongs to var. tumidula Laest. ; a third (pencilled 



II Muhlenberg No. 33 ") contains two distinct, presumably Ame- 

 rican, species, not at all closely allied to panicea. 



27. C. cespitosa (so spelt in Spec. Plant.). The type-specimen 

 consists of two flowering stems, without leaves or root. Fruit 

 veinless ; glumes ovate-oblong, much exceeding it (this is contrary 

 to the long description in Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. p. 227), blunt, 

 darkish brown (not black) with a paler centre. Certainly neither 

 Goodenowii, acuta auct., nor elata All. (Hudsonii Ar. Benn., stricta 

 Good.), and apparently the true plant. A second sheet is good 

 C. Goodenowii Gay. 



28. G. acuta. The type-sheet consists of three culms, all 

 slender and young ; the only one sufficiently advanced to repay 

 examination is distinctly tristigmatic, and has the glumes of C. 

 acutiformis Ehrh. {paludosa Good.) rather than of G. gracilis Curt. 

 (acuta auct.). On a companion-sheet are two specimens ("ex 

 oriente, Nasselquist ") of G. hispida Willd. and one of G. acuti- 

 formis, determined by Ascherson. 



From Spec. Plant., ed. 1, I quote rather fully: — 



" 28. acuta. Carex spicis masculis pluribus, femineis sub- 

 sessilibus, capsulis obtusiusculis. Fl, Suec. 769. ... 



Carex spicis erectis oblongis sessilibus alternis foliolo floral i 

 brevioribus : superioribus masculis. Hort. cliff. 439. . . . 

 a. nigra. Carex nigra verna vulgaris. Fl. Lapp. 330. 



Gramen Cyperoides, foiiis earyophyllieis, vulgatissimum. 



Baj hist. 1292. 

 /?. russa. Carex spicis masculis superioribus numerosis, femineis 



inferioribus : intermedia unica androgyna. Boy. lugdb. 75. 



Carex maxima, spicis plurimis remotis longis. Fl. Lapp. 329. 



[There are three other less imporant references under /3.] 

 Habitat in Europa ubiqm : a in sicciorikus, ft in aquosis" 



