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Ruppia rostellata, Koch. Ditch near Lewes, Sussex, 

 July, 1900.— T. Hilton. New to Div. IV. of Arnold's Sussex 

 Flora. 



Cypenis ftiscus, L. Peaty valley below Weston-in-Gor- 

 dano, N. Somerset, Sept. 27, 1900.— J. W. White. A beautiful 

 series of the plant from N. Somerset, from which county 

 it was recorded in Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 446. These specimens 

 are unusually tall and fine ; similarly luxuriant plants, 

 however, occur in the Kew Herb, labelled " Hillbrook 

 Meadow, Little Chelsea. Coll. Stevens, Sept., 1847." — E.S. 

 and C.E.S. 



Scivpus cevmius, Vahl, var. pygniaciis (Kunth). Carradale, 

 Cantire, Aug. 28, 1898. Coll. A. M. Geldart.— H. D. Geldart. 

 The name pygmaciis cannot be used for the present plant, 

 as Kunth intended by it identically the Scivpus cernims of Vahl, 

 which Kunth himself quotes (Enum. PI. H. p. 191) as a 

 synonym. Apparently the proper name for the present plant 

 — which, however, can scarcely be considered anything more 

 than a form — is var. monosiachys, Hook. Stud. Fl. 400 (1870). 

 — C. B. Clarke. 



Cavex chovdofvhiza, L. Altnaharra, W. Sutherland, v.c. 

 108, 5/6/1900.— E. S. Marshall. A fine series of this rare 

 sedge, which is figured and described for the first time as 

 a British plant, from this locality, in Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 73. 



C. tevetiiisctila, Good, var. Ehrhartiana, Hoppe. (1) Smtton 

 Park, Warwick, Birmingham, , v.c. 38, June, 1898. — E. 

 Cleminshaw. (2) Groby Pool, Leicester, July, 1900. — A. B. 

 Jackson. (3) Luffness, E. Lothian, July 10, 1900.— F. C. 

 Crawford. (1) Not tufted enough to be var. Ehrhartiana. — E. 

 F. Linton. (2) The Carex collected by Mr. Jackson at Groby 

 Pool is, I think, identical with that I find in Sutton Park, 

 Warwickshire, and which I named C. teretiuscida Good. var. 

 Ehrhartiana, Hoppe. Mr. Jackson's specimens are badly 

 selected as they do not show the habit of growth, but Mr. Mott in 

 his " Flora of Leicestershire," p. 166, speaking of this Groby 

 Pool plant says : — " This sedge grows in swampy meadows 

 by Groby Pool, in large tufts with numerous stems, and seems 

 to approach the variety Ehrhartiana, the figure of which, how- 

 ever, in 'English Botany' does not agree with the description." 



This is exactly the growth of the Sutton plant when 

 growing near or in water, but when the surroundings become 

 less humid (as is the case at Sutton, owing to the lowering of 

 the pool level for municipal purposes), then the plant becomes 

 scattered in growth and assumes the form of ordinary 

 C. teretiusctUa. 



