590 85. CYPERACER. 
less variable characters. Still, I cannot assign all the specimens 
in my own herbarium quite confidently between the Oederi and 
lepidocarpa; apparently, they shew localities for the former 
ranging from South Hants to Orkney. In English Botany, 
x. 159, Dr. Boswell Syme expresses the like uncertainty, but 
adds, “I never found the same difficulty when the plants were 
growing.” 
Carex (flava) lepidocarpa, Tausch. 
Provinces all? But usually under name of Oedert. 
Syn. 1234. See the preceding segregate. 
Carex (fulva) genuina, EB. B. 3. 
»  speirostachya, Sm. EH. B. 3. 
Provinces all? Not ascertained for either of these apart. 
Syn. 1237. Cyb. iii. 118. In my own notes of past years the 
names fulva and speirostachya have been used as exchangeable 
synonyms; for I never understood how to separate the plants 
themselves. In English Botany, Dr. Boswell Syme expresses the 
like uncertainty, and writes of speirostachya “had Smith not 
described it as a species, I should certainly not have noticed it 
even as a variety.” He there adds a third variety, one quite un- 
known to myself, the sterilis, suggested to be a sedge intended by 
“ Dr. Boott, in letter quoted in Bromtield’s Flo. Vect. p. 565.” 
This may possibly be the true fulva. 
Carex punctata, Gaud. 
Provinces 1-7. Cornwall? Anglesea? [12 Cumberland.] 
Ambiguity. Cyb. iii. 121. See Phytologist iv. 679, as to Cumber- 
land. As to the locality “ near Beaumaris or Bangor,” Dr. Arnott 
wrote “one of these is erroneous.” There might be nothing very 
unexpected, in the finding of this sedge in England and Ireland ; 
but the evidence for it appears to me hitherto to have been far 
from satisfactory. Dr. Boswell Syme had seen no British, Ivish, or 
Guernsey specimens, as mentioned in English Botany, x. 151. 
Dr. Hooker accepts it for Guernsey and Ireland,—whether on 
testimony or by examined specimens, is not stated in ‘ The 
Student’s Flora.’ 
Carex (limosa, I.) vera. 
Provinces -?-4??--91011?-? 15 1617. 
Syn. 1244. Cyb. iii. 128. It seems impossible to assign old 
records of localities for ‘‘limosa” between this and irrigua. In 
English Botany, Dr. Syme gives no localities for the present 
segregate distinctly on his own individual knowledge. In my 
herbarium the specimens of true limosa are from East Suffolk, 
Cheshire, Fife, Forfar, Dumbarton, and Sutherland. York; 
Baker Bot. Northumberland and Cheviotland; New flo. Re- 
examination must determine which of the two really occurs in 
provinces 2 5 6-12-14. 
