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Court Pond. At first Beeby wrote “ The plant forms large 
dense tufts, but I can detect no fibrillse at the base of the stem.” 
Later on he writes “ . . . . the specimens collected early (May 
16, 1887) show the filamentous network to the leaves quite 
distinctly, but it seems to disappear later when the fruit is 
ripe ” {Rep. B.E.C. 1895, p. 499). None of these May 
specimens appear to be preserved, but it is worth noting that 
the plant grows with G. vesicaria with only slightly broader 
leaves, and that species when young shows a conspicuous 
netting round the sheathes which deceived me on my first 
visit. Although the present plant is plainly not the G. turfosa 
of Fries in Bot. Not. 1823, n. 7, p. 104 ; and 1845, n. 7-8, 
p. 117, or of most Continental works, (e.g. Neuman, Sveriges 
Flora, 707 (1901) ; Rouy, FI. Fr. xiii, 503 ; Husnot, 
Gyperac4.es 31,' t. 7 (1905-6)) it may well be the var. turfosa of 
Goodenowii (sub. nom. C. nigra Linn.) in Beck FI. von Nieder- 
Osterreich, 136 (1893). The present gathering appears to 
belong to an extreme form of Goodenowii for which at present 
I know of no satisfactory varietal name. I have seen similar 
specimens at the head of Loch Tummel where they also grew 
in very swampy ground. Specimens from Scotland collected 
by E. S. Marshall and determined by Kukenthal as C. turfosa 
Fries are very different. I hope to collect further examples 
next year. — J. E. Lousley. 
Carex montana Linn. Chailey Common, East Sussex, June 
25, 1932. When I visited this Common on May 5 the ground 
had recently been swept by a fire which had burnt off the 
young leaves of some of the plants of G. montana. As a 
result they had thrown up abnormal leaves resembling those 
of C. pilulifera which also grows there. Careful examination 
has convinced me that the plants were not hybrids, but the 
possibility of such a hybrid occurring should not be lost sight 
of. — J. E. Lousley. 
Carex ericetorum Poll. Near Eriswell, W. Suffolk, June 4, 
1933. [Ref. E.9]. — J. E. Lousley. This rare sedge is far more 
conspicuous in flower than in fruit, and hence fruits are 
inadequately represented in most herbaria. The few 
specimens now contributed were gathered from a locality 
where it is exceedingly plentiful, though, whereas the ground 
was crowded with the plants in flower in April, the large 
majority of them had either dried up or failed to set seed, so 
that in June only a fraction of the total number were to be 
