85. CYPERACER, 589 
Carea Gibsoni, Bab. 
Province - 10. Yorkshire; Bab. man. ‘“ Extinct.” 
Ambiguity. Oyb iii. 111. A variety of C. vulgaris; E. B. 8. 
Carex (aquatilis) Watsoni, E. B. 3. 
Provinces - 138 1415. Lanark. Linlith. Aberd. Fife? Forfar? 
Syn. 1230. I have some hesitation about combining the aquatilis 
of the Clova mountains with the Lowland plants from the Clyde 
and Almond rivers. Dr. Boott made out other affinities by pencilled 
notes to the specimens in my own herbarium. On two of them, 
collected in the Clyde district, probably in Lanarkshire, by 
Dr. Hooker, his note runs thus; ‘ Near Goodenovii, bracts too 
long.” On other two, from the Almond, collected by Professor 
J. H. Balfour in Sept. 1838, his note is “very like stricta (Lam.) 
of America.” These last were named “ (C. stricta, Good.” on the 
labels of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Thus, these sedges 
of the Almond river, near Edinburgh, have been assigned more or 
less uncertainly to three different species, to aquatilis, to stricta of 
Goodenough, and to stricta of Lamarck ;—the latter being the 
virginiana of Smith, and one we might have supposed Dr. Boott 
likely to know. 
Carex cespitosa, “ Linn.” “Fries.” ‘“ C. Drejeri, Lunge.” 
Provinces...? “Britain; Dr. Greville.” 
Ambiguity. Cyb. iii. 112. Probably a mistake; Eng. bot. x. 175. 
Carea (acuta) Moenchiana, Wendl. 
Provinces ...? A form of acuta; Student's Flora of B. B. p. 480. 
Syn. 1232. Not noticed in the third edition of English Botany. 
But two other suggested varieties of acuta are mentioned there, 
as being “perhaps” the proliva of Fries and the tricostata of 
Fries. These two are unknown to me. The former is stated to 
grow “in the ditch by the side of the Towing path, on the banks 
of the Thames near Richmond.” The latter came “from clay-pits 
at Northwick, near Worcester, collected by Mr. G. Maw.” 
Carex (saxatilis) Grahami, Boott. 
Province - 15. Forfar; W. Brand! Perth; E. B. 
Syn. 1233. Cyb. iti. 115. Eng. bot. x. 172.— 
Carex saxatilis.—‘‘ I cannot escape the conviction that this totally 
different-looking plant”... “is an alpine form of C. vesicaria, to 
which variety Grahami forms a passage”; The Student’s Flora of 
the British Islands, p. 421. 
Carex (flava) Cederi, Auct. “ Ehrh.” 
Provinces --34--7-910---1415--18. From E. B. 3. 
Syn. 1284. Cyb. iii, 116. Apparently two different plants have 
been thus named by English botanists. The more frequent of 
these is a slight variety of flava, closely connected with the type 
by a series of intermediate forms. But another less frequent 
plant may perhaps be held separable from the flava by better and 
