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G.  helvola  Blytt  (=  C.  carta  x  lagopina).  Orig. 
Lochnagar,  S.  Aberdeensh.  Cult.  Edmondsham,  Dorset, 
June  26,  1909.— E.  F.  Linton.  Yes:  C.  canescens  x  Lache- 
nalii,  according  to  our  present  nomenclature.  Mr.  Linton 
finds  it  constantly  sterile.  In  one  of  its  Lochnagar 
stations  C.  canescens ,  var.  fallax  Aschers.  and  C.  Lache- 
nalii  grow  very  close  to  one  another.  Beautiful  material. 
—E.S.M.  These  are  like  the  Finnish  specimens  from 
Dr.  Kitelman.  A  very  full  account  of  this  plant  will  be 
found  in  “  Medd.  Soc.  Fauna  et  Flora  Fennica,”  XVI. 
(1888-91),  p.  10-16  and  74,  by  Dr.  Kitelman,  where  he 
also  describes  C.  pseudo- helvola  (=  C.  canescens  x  C.  nor- 
vegica).  See  also  “Ann.  Scot.  Nat.  Hist.,”  1909,  p.  238, 
and  Jl.  Bot.,  1909,  p.  107.— A.B. 
G.  elata  All.  Edge  of  pool,  Tickenham  Moor,  N. 
Somerset,  v.c.  6,  June  15,  1909.  This  sedge  was  discovered 
last  year  by  Messrs.  C.  Bucknall  and  J.  W.  White,  and 
makes  a  certain  record  for  N.  Somerset,  in  which  vice¬ 
county  it  had  only  previously  been  very  doubtfully 
recorded.  See  Jl.  Bot.,  Oct.  1908.— Ida  M.  Roper.  No 
doubt  the  carex  intended  by  that  name  in  L.C.,  ed.  X. ; 
C.  Hudsonii  Ar.  Benn.  of  ed.  IX.,  and  C.  stricta  Good, 
previously.— E.  F.  L.  Correct  (C.  stricta  Good.).  The 
shining  sheaths  at  the  base  of  the  stems  are  a  marked 
feature  in  this  species. — E.S.M.  This  seems  to  belong  to 
the  G.  stricta  of  Goodenough.  Herr  Kiikenthal  in  his 
monograph  of  Carex  in  “  Das  Pflanzenreich  ”  uses  my 
name  C.  Hudsonii  because  of  the  uncertainty  of  Allioni’s 
elata  being  stricta  or  acuta,  and  there  is  no  specimen 
known  to  be  extant  of  Allioni’s  plant.  G.  stricta  is  given 
for  Somerset  in  the  Rev.  R.  P.  Murray’s  “FI.  of  Somerset,” 
(1896),  p.  868  only  as  “  an  excluded  species.”  I  have  seen 
specimens  gathered  by  Mr.  White  in  that  county,  but  I 
do  not  know  whether  in  the  N.  or  S.  vice-county. — A.B. 
C.  acuta  L.  (  =  gracilis  Curt.),  var.  - .  Plentiful 
below  the  mill,  River  Avon,  Stratford-on-Avon,  Warwicksh., 
v.c.  38,  June,  1909. — W.  Bell.  G.  gracilis  Curt.,  var. 
gracilescens  (Almq.,  under  C.  acuta),  I  believe.— E.S.M. 
A  form  with  narrow  glumes  which  might  present  some 
interesting  feature,  if  gathered  in  maturer  fruit.  The 
mere  breadth  of  the  glume  in  this  or  the  parallel  species, 
C.  acutiformis,  is  not  enough  for  making  a  variety. — -E.F.L. 
