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the var. brevifolius Meyer (Asch. et Graebn. “Syn.”), which has 
leaves only half this length. These are simply young un- 
developed forms of normal pusillus.” — W.H.P. 
Zostera mm Roth. Mud banks in Strangford Lough, Grey 
Abbey, co. Down, growing in shallow water. Sept. 7, 1918. 
Zannichellia grows with it, and some may be mixed. — C. H. 
Waddell. 
Cyperus fuscus L. Walton peat-moor, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, 
Aug. 14, 19i9. On N. side of 2 rhines, locally plentiful this year 
after drought ; hardly visible six weeks later in ranker vegeta- 
tion of replenished ditches.— H. S. Thompson. Very nice speci- 
mens. — E.F.L. 
Car ex arenaria L., var. remota Marss. Marshy ground, Weston- 
super-Mare, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, June 24, 1919. — Ida M. Roper. 
Usually Marsson’s plant is a larger and taller plant than Miss 
Roper’s specimens. He describes it as “ Caule elato gracili apice 
nutante; spiculis inferioribus 2—3 remotis ; folio involucrali 
plerumque longissimo ” (“FI. Neu-Pomm.”, 1869, p. 523). — A.B. 
Yes ; but not extreme. — C.E.S. I have two W. Norfolk sheets 
of C. arenaria L, gathered by myself — (1) Hunstanton, Aug. 
1878; (2) Stow Bardolph, July 22, 1917, an inland station on 
an exposure of greensand, 40 ft. above sea-level, not recorded in 
Nicholson’s “Flora of Norfolk.” On both sheets, which are 
more robust than Miss Roper’s, the three lower spikelets are 
separated by intervals of from 6 — 10 mm., and the bracts of the 
lower spikelets are from 15—60 mm. in length. The length of 
the lower bract on one stem of a sheet of Miss Roper’s is about 
13 mm., and twice as long as the (immature) spikelet. In the 
other stems it does not appear to be longer than the spikelet. — 
J.E.L. There is not much in this variety, which is not infre- 
quent on the coast about Burnham-on-Sea, and I doubt if it 
remains constant. — IJ.S.T. I know this form well ; but C. 
arenaria varies so much according to soil and exposure that I 
hardly consider such forms as true varieties in the botanical 
sense. In the acres of this Carex on the Suffolk warrens any- 
one could name dozens of varieties, some due to abortion caused 
by insects. — A.H.E. 
C. paradoxa Willd. ( See Wats. E.C. Rept., 1914, p. 513). 
Fruits. E. of Shouldham Warren, W. Norfolk, v.c. 28, July 10, 
1919. The station is not the same as that from which plants 
were distributed to the W.E.C. in 1914, but lies about a mile 
away, on the other side of Shouldham Warren, in a swamp with 
