ERIOPHORUM. — CAREX. 205 



flowered, the sheep totally neglect the flower stem (moss), and de- 

 pasture only on the leaves {ling)." View of the Agric. of Northum- 

 berland, p. 145. 



74. E. ANGusTiFOLiuM et E. poLYSTACHioN. Cotton^gtafiS. — 

 I have followed Professor Arnott in placing these names under one 

 species, having been unable, in many cases, to decide to which to 

 refer my specimens. Those which seem decidedly to belong to E. 

 polystachion are not of common occurrence, and are found only in 

 very wet ditches or peat bogs. Our herds, I believe, do not distin- 

 guish this species, even as here received, from the preceding ; and 

 the properties of the plants are undoubtedly the same. They con- 

 stitute a very marked and pleasant feature in the muirland landscape, 

 where often a large expanse of boggy ground is whitened with their 

 cotton-like seed-tufts. The grass flowers in April, but the tufts 

 remain until the solstice or later. " Paludes mense Junio ex pappo 

 albent." Linnaeus. 



75. E. PUBESCENS=E. latifolium. Arnott in Loudon's Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. i. 240. Berw. Flora, i. 17. — Bogs, not uncommon, 

 especially on moors. June.— This is surely the species that Dickson 

 first particularly distinguished as E. polystachion. See Withering's 

 Bot. Arrang. ii. p. 72. Our plant is aptly described by Wahlenberg, 

 Fl. Lapp. p. 19. 



76. Carex dioica. Spongy bogs, common. May, June. 



77. C. ptFLicARis. Frequent in bogs. June. 



78. C. ovALis. Marshy meadows, and generally in the same 

 localities as C. intermedia. June. 



79. C. STELLTJLATA. Boggy grouuds, common. May, June. 



80. C. CURTA. Bogs, not uncommon in our district. June. 



81. C. REMOTA. Damp shaded places. N. Banks of Wooler- 

 water below Langley-ford : base of Yevering Bell. — B. Banks of 

 Berwick burn ; and Sisterpath dean in Penmanshiel wood, J. Hardy. 



82. C. PANicuLATA. Bogs. D. Haidcu and Allerton-mill deans. 

 — N. Foot of Yevering Bell. — B. Coldingham moor, and in Little- 

 dean plantations, A. A. Carr. In an Aller-bog near the head of the 

 Tower burn on the farm of Hoprigg : Braid bog on Penmanshiel 

 moor, J. Hardy. — The large tufts formed by this and other coarse 

 csespitose grasses are called ^niiacki, and afford firm footing to the 

 botanist in his curious search through the bog. See Promptorium 

 Parvulorum, i. p. 228. 



83. C. TERETiuscuLA. " This accompanies C. paniculata in a 

 bog, called the Braid bog, on Penmanshiel moor. It grows in small, 

 and, at times, separate bushes." J. Hardy. 



84. C. vuLPiNA. Wet places, not very common, but scattered 

 over the district. June. 



85. C. ARENARiA. ^ta^JSeutS.— Abundant on the links of our 

 coast S. of the Tweed, where it helps to bind the loose sands. On 



