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Carex . Little Cotes, near Grimsby, v.c. 54,. 



July, 1902. This species is named by Dr. F. A. Lees 

 C. stricta { — C. Hudsonii) ; other botanists to whom I 

 have referred it vary in opinion, though some confirm 

 Dr. Lees' naming^. I shall be glad if a definite deter- 

 mination can be made — A. Smith. Too young. C. acuta,. 

 V. gracilis vel C. stricta, Good ? — A. B. Though 

 Mr. Bennett very properly declines to definitely name 

 such mimature and such fragmentary specimens, I think 

 there is little doubt but that Dr. Lees' naming will prove 

 correct. The specimens should have shown a portion of 

 rootstock.— H. W. P. 



Carex acuta, L., forma ? Cropston Reservoir, 



Leicestershire, loth June, 1902. — W. Bell. C. Goodenovii, 

 Gay. — A.B. C. acuta, L., form with rather obtuse and 

 shorter glumes to the fruit ; it seems to agree with the 

 C.tricostata of Fries, in Summ. Veg. Scan., and with plate 

 of same in Andersson's Cyper. Scandinavise. — C. E. S. 

 C. acuta, L. ; C. tricostata, Fries, is at Kew, two sets of 

 culms authenticated by him ; they have very short spikes, 

 unusually dense; this does not approach them. — 

 C. B. Clarke. 



C. acuta, L., varying towards vslt. prolixa, Fr. Edge 

 of River Avon, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, v.c. 33, 

 July, 1902. — C. Waterfall. Apparently sterile. I do not 

 see that the nuts have swollen at all, the fruit seems quite 

 inflated and hollow. C. prolixa, Fr. has its fruits perfect 

 and fertile. I am inclined to call this a hybrid, i.e. 

 C. paludosaXrostrata, or perhaps more truly, rostrataX 

 paludosa. I do not find this mentioned in Richter's 

 Plant. Europ., but he has a ripariaXrostrata. I seethe 

 London Catalogue has acutiformis, Ehrh. as an earlier 

 name for paludosa. I do not find this hybrid {aciLtiformis 

 Xrostrata) in the latest Swedish or German Floras. — 

 A. B. Mr. Waterfall's sedge seems to me to show 

 excellent evidence of both parents, i.e. rostrata and 

 paludosa, and is clearly sterile. — E. S. M. 



C. tomentosa, L. Near Fairford, Gloucester, v.c. 33, 

 June, 1902. — Coll. J. Taylor. Comm. A. B. Jackson. 



