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C. ornithopoda Willcl. Cressbrook Dale, Derby, v.c. 57. — Coll. 
Jos. Sidebotham, June 1882. Comm. S. H. Bickham. 
C. pendula Huds. 1 form or x . Talbot Wood, Langton 
Matravers, Dorset, June 19, 1921. — E. B. Bishop. I think this 
may be referred to the forma minutiflora Wansbrecker in “ Oest. 
Bot. Zeit.” 49 (1899), p. 67. Evidently poor or retarded growth 
in poor soil. The difference in Scotch specimens (J. B. Syme) 
with leaves nearly an inch wide, and five feet high, is great. — 
A. Bennett. 
C. distans L. Upland moor, at Bigland near Haverthwaite, 
N. Lancs., v.c. 69 b, Aug. 1, 1921. — W. H. Pearsall. This seems 
to be the usual inland form of the species, though smaller than 
usual. My late friend, Mr. C. B. Clarke, contended that this 
should bear Degland’s name C. neglecta in “Lois, FI. Gall.” Ed. 2, 
298 (1807), and the maritime form he proposed (had he lived) 
to name in his monograph C. vikingensis. — A. Bennett. Evidently 
a mixture was sent - My specimens were obviously not distans : 
neither were Mr. Little’s, nor Mr. Salmon’s. One specimen on 
mv sheet, which I considered fulva, Mr. White, after comparison 
with ample material, determines as flava x fulva (C. xanthocarpa 
Degl.). The two others he considers C. flava , var. lepidocarpa 
(Tausch.). Messrs. Little and Salmon consider their’s fulva, and 
the latter says in litt. — “ One example might be a cross with fulva 
as one parent (it looks almost sterile).” The forms and nomen- 
clature of this group are indeed puzzling.— H. S. Thompson. 
C. Oederi (Retz.) var. cyperoides Marsson, “FI. von Neuvor- 
pom.” p. 537 (1869) ( non C. cyperoides L. Syst.). Shapwiek Peat- 
moor, Somerset, v.c. 6, July 8, 1921. Here it grows taller than 
described by Marsson, Husnot, Rouy, etc. — H. S. Thompson. 
One of the specimens sent me is probably the plant of Marsson 
(i.e. with the aggregated spikes, which is one of the marks of the 
variety). Marsson (l.c.) makes his Oederi a sub-sp of flava, and 
puts his cyperoides under Oederi. In the “Mem. Torr. Bot. 
Club,” under “Types of species of the genus Carex,” p. 30, 
Prof. Bailey mentions an American var. viridula, and remarks, 
‘ Its relationship to var. cyperoides is very close, and that variety 
clearly belongs to C. flava .” On the contrary, it seems by 
general consent to be rightly placed under Oederi. And yet, 
strange to say, Bailey marks it as having seen a specimen named 
by Marsson. Asch. et Graeb. “Syn. Mitt. Flora,” p. 202 (1903) 
seem to treat it as a “lusus glomerata Callme Deutsche Bot. 
