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— W. A. Shoolbred. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. Yes. — 
J. Fraser. 
Carex digitata L. Wyndcliff, Mon., 1896 and 1904. — 
A. Ley and W. A. Shoolbred. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. 
Carex ornithopoda Willd. Cressbrook Dale, Derbyshire, 
1876 and 1898. — E. F. Linton and T. Rogers. Comm. Nat. 
Mus. of Wales. 
Carex montana L. Wyndcliff, Monmouth, April 12, 1904. 
— A. Ley. Comm. Nat. Mus. of Wales. 
Carex lepidocarpa Tausch. ? “ Peplis ” pond, E. of Black- 
down, Mendip, at 1,000 feet, N. Somerset, June 17, 1930. — 
H. S. Thompson. This is the commonest form of the flava- 
group in Britain, and is the C. fiava var. minor of Townsend, 
which is identified with C. Gideri var. cedocarpa Anderss. 
According to L. H. Bailey (vide Journ. Bot. xxvii, 332, 1889), 
this plant is the typical C. Gideri Retz., while the form that 
most recent European botanists regard as that species is 
C. Gideri var. cyperoides Marsson. The plant now contributed 
appears to me more closely connected with C. fiava L. than 
with what we in Britain understand as true C. Gideri. C. 
lepidocarpa Tausch is a taller, narrow-leaved plant with 
deflexed beaks to its larger perigynia. — H. W. Pugsley. 
Ascherson and Graebner remark : “ However different 
dwarf forms of C. Gideri appear from the well-developed 
examples of C. fiava ( vulgaris segr.) which have utricles twice 
as large, it is nevertheless impossible to find salient characters 
for the differentiation of two or even three species. The 
direction of the beak is quite inconstant.” 
Ascherson and Graebner make no mention of C. fiava var. 
minor Towns. ( C . cedocarpa Anderss.) and their description 
of C. lepidocarpa has : — “ The lowest female spikelet often 
very remote, below the middle of the stem.” According to 
their arrangement Mr. Thompson’s plant might therefore 
come under C. lepidocarpa. But according to Townsend’s 
arrangement I believe the shorter stem (which is decumbent 
ascending), the smaller utricles (3 mm.) with short beak 
(1 mm.) and sometimes remote lower spikelet would bring it 
under var. minor. Kiikenthal’s description of var. cedocarpa 
has “ Spiculae $ pedunculatae, $ + remotae. Bracteae 
saepe erecto-patentes. Utriculi longius [quam in C. Gideri] 
rostrati.” — J. E, Little, 
