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Rynchos'pora alba Vahl, with axillary buds at the rootstock. 
Shapwick Peatmoor, Somerset, Sept. 7 and 18, 1931. — H. S. 
Thompson. Beautiful material, showing the axillary buds 
which will produce next year’s plants. The growth from year 
to year is thus really sympodial, though each year’s growth 
usually dies away, leaving only the axillary bud to continue 
growth in the next season. — E. Drabble. 
Schoenus nigricans L. Shapwick Peatmoor, Somerset, 
Sept. 7, 1931. In fair quantity in two wet enclosures. There 
are few stations for it in Somerset. — H. S. Thompson. 
Cladium Mariscus Brown. Shapwick Peatmoor, Somerset, 
Sept. 7, 1931. Two large colonies much increased in area since 
discovered by Mr. J. W. Haines in 1915. Until Mr. Hy. 
Corder found a clump on the moor near Catcott in 1910, the 
same year that E. S. Marshall saw it abundantly near Wivelis- 
combe in West Somerset, there was no record for Cladium in 
Somerset since Sole’s MS., 1782. For possible explanation of 
this see White in Journ. Bot. 1918, p. 83, who refers to Yapp’s 
paper in New Phytologist, 1908, p. 60. — H. S. Thompson. 
Carex disticha Huds. Swamp by Odiham Castle, North 
Hampshire, July 18, 1931. A similar gathering to that from 
Dungeness last year. See Report 1930-31, p. 86. — E. C. 
Wallace. Yes ; widely distributed in Britain, but local in 
my experience. — J. Fraser. 
Carex vulpina var. nemorosa (Rebent.). [2664], Corner of 
two roads, south of Whitchurch, N. Somerset, June 15, 1931. 
Growing with C. contigua, as in 1922 and 1925. Some of those 
collected are very variable, and several sheets [2663] I believe 
to be C. contigua x vulpina. See Report 1924-25, p. 314, and 
1925-26, p. 355. — H. S. Thompson. I see only the typical 
species in this : the bracts are too short for nemorosa. — H. W. 
Pugsley. Cf. W .E.C’.R. 1924, 314, where C. E. Salmon says 
of a plant from the same station Perhaps. It would be a 
great help to have the plant in more stages than one. The 
spike is interrupted (Cf. Miss Roper’s plant, W.E.C.R. 1930, 
86), but the glumes are distinctly brown in colour. Should 
not var. nemorosa have a much laxer spike and paler glumes ? 
J. E. Little. Although gathered on June 15, the perigynia 
are rather soft and squeezed up flat. The stem is quite 
compressed, and both it and the leaves are much less scabrous 
