C. elongata L. Near Billingshurst, W. Sussex, v.c. 13, June 8, 
1918. In profusion over a small area where it was discovered 
some years ago by Mr. W. Id. Beeby, this being its second Sussex 
station. Some of the specimens I gathered possessed a long 
bract (the most extreme about 23 cm. long) at the base of the 
spike. Hooker (“Stud. FI.”) says “bracts 0.” Babington 
(“Man.”) “bracts none, or one very short.” Syme (“Eng. 
Bot.”) “ Spike .... without a foliaceous bract at the base.” 
Andersson (“PI. Scarid. Cyp.”) “spiculis . . . ebracteatis.” How- 
ever, Ascherson & Graebner (“Syn. Mittel. FI.”) state that the 
lowest bract is sometimes leaflike, a description which exactly 
fits my Billingshurst gathering, and makes it quite unnecessary 
that a new name should be suggested for this bracteate state. — 
C. E. Salmon. 
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C. aquatilis Wahl., var. virescens And. Marsh by Derwentwater, 
Cumberland, v.c. 70, July 15, 1919. Of the man} 7 described 
forms of C. aquatilis, this Derwentwater plant seems to agree well 
with Andersson’s virescens (“PI. Scand. Cyp.” 46, 1849), having 
tall stems (two feet or more), long leaves and bracts overtopping 
the spikes and fruit exceeding the blunt glumes. Mr. A. Bennett 
approves this name. C. aquatilis has been recorded already for 
v.c. 69, Lake Lancashire (A. Bennett “Naturalist,” 1897, p. 77), 
where Mr. R. L. Praeger found it near Windermere, but it has 
not, I believe, been before reported from v.c. 70, Cumberland, 
where I found it growing in abundance, not confined to one spot, 
by Derwentwater. — C. E. Salmon. The distribution of aquatilis 
in Great Britain and Ireland is a puzzle. We must go to the 
United States for an example. Yet this may be misleading, as 
specimens of aquatilis from U.S.A. are by no means all correctly 
named, and although Prof. Bailey, in his “ Preliminary synopsis 
of North American Carices ” (Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences, 
New Series, XIV, (1886), p. 84), says it grows “from New 
England across the continent and northward,” this is not justified 
by specimens. The winters in New England are colder than in 
Wales or Kerry in Ireland, and the summers hotter, yet we have 
aquatilis in Kdrry and Wales, but nowhere else in Europe south 
of Ingria (Russia), c. 59° N. lat. In Kerry (at c. 52° N. lat.) the 
climate is mild and equable ; yet there we have a flora quite unlike 
Ingria or New England. One can understand aquatilis growing 
in Caithness or even Cumberland, but the Irish station is an 
anomaly. — A.B. 
C. digitata L. Near Symonds Yat, W. Glos., v.c. 34, June 13, 
1916.— L. B. Hall. Yes.— A.B. 
