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Carex rupestris All. Corrie Candor, S. Aberdeen, July, 
1906. — W. A. Shoolbred. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. 
Carex vulpina L. var. interrupta Peterm. Border of Nailsea 
Ponds, N. Somerset, June 28, 1930. Plants were gathered 
from the same clump in July, 1915, and sent to Mr. Arthur 
Bennett, who named them C. muricata L. and added, “ I 
quite think it may come under the var. altissima Asch. and 
Graeb.=G. altissima Schur., but I have seen no specimens, 
so cannot say definitely that it may be so named.” E. S. 
Marshal wrote in Oct., 1915., “ The leaves are much too 
broad for C. muricata auct. angl. ( C . contigua Hoppe) ; the 
habit and the fruit appear to me to be decidedly in favour 
of C. vulpina. The perigyna are distinctly (not obscurely) 
veined. Your specimens seem to answer fairly well to the 
description in Asch. and Graeb. Synopsis Vol. II, pt. 2, p. 37, 
of C. vulpina L. var. interrupta Peterm. Spikes interrupted, 
glumes whitish, palish brown on the margin. They say that 
this is rare. I have a very similar plant from Cofton, S. 
Devon.” — Ida M. Roper. This seems a good variety 
Another with the bracts longer than usual has been named 
C. nemorosa Lumn. — J. Fraser. I think this belongs to the 
typical species. — H. W. Pugsley. I should not consider 
interrupta (or even the shade-form nemorosa ) a really good 
variety of this very variable Sedge, and in my experience 
interrupted forms are not “ rare.” In Somerset I have seen 
it frequently, and have good examples from a roadside near 
Pill, N. Som., 1916. — H. S. Thompson. 
It is difficult to imagine that Ar. Bennett could or would 
have placed the present plant under C. muricata aggr. The 
weak compressible triquetrous stems, the broad leaves, and 
long posterior attachment of the ligule (14 mm.) are those of 
C. vulpina, as well as the characters of the fruit mentioned 
by Marshall. Mr. Barton (W.E.C.R. 1917, 78) distributed 
as C. vulpina var. nemorosa Lej., a similar plant with lowest 
spikelet distant about twice its own length from the next 
above. For it Mr. Bennett queried var. interrupta Peterm. 
R. S. Adamson distributed as C. vulpina var. nemorosa Lej. 
(B.E.C.R. 1912, 293), another sheet which resembles the 
preceding, and has fuscous not pallid glumes. — J. E. Little. 
Carex . Swamp on Denge Beach, East Kent. July 
9, 1930. The fruits are apparently abnormal through being 
galled. — E. C. Wallace. Apparently luxuriant C. arenaria, 
