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‘ These specimens appear to me to be quite as near gemiina as to 
b. alpicola. The length of the foliaceous bracts at the base of 
some of the spikes is a peculiar feature.’ — T. E. A. B, This is all 
we have to represent aJpicola in Scotland, and when cultivated it 
scarcely is to be distmguisbed from ordinary curta. 1 have some 
doubts if we have true C. vitilia in Britain. — J. T. Boswell. 
Carex ovalis, Good., b. hracteata. Damp meadows near Lyss 
Station, Hants. June, 1873.— F. Townsend. This is the same as 
Mr. T. Westcombe’s plant from Castle Morton Common, Worcester- 
shire, on which the variety was founded. — J. T. Boswell. 
C. aquatilis, Wahl. Clova Mountains, Forfarshire. July 1, 1874. 
— Augustin Ley. This is C. aquatilis gmuina, ‘E.B.,’ ed. iii., 
equal to C. aquatilus, var. 2 minor, Boot, Hooker’s ‘ Student’s Flora,’ 
p. 413. 
C. aquatilis, b. var. Watsoni, Syme. Tweedside, Makers- 
toun, Eoxburgb, June, 1876, and near Gaddonfoot, Selkirk, June, 
1876. This in many parts is the commonest sedge on Tweedside, 
occurring in long narrow beds close to the edge of the river. I 
have seen it also in both the counties of Berwick and Northumber- 
land (Cbeviotland. ) Apt to be confounded with C. acuta. — Andkew 
Brotherston. 
C. aquatilis, Wahl., b. JVatsoni. Banks of the Thurso Eiver, 
Caithness. July, 1875. Clyde side at Kenmure, 5 miles above 
Glasgow, June, 1876. — G. Horn. This seems really to be the type 
of the species. — J. T. Boswell. 
C. pxmctata. Gaud. Near St. Austell, Cornwall. June, 1876. 
- — J. CuNNACK. From the long-known Cornish station. — T. E. A. B. 
C. xanthocarpa. Degland. ; C.fulva, var. sterilis, ‘E. B.,’ ed. 3, 
vol. X., p. 153 ; C. fulva, Koch et Auct. plur. (non Smith). Marsh 
at Piggar, Swanbister, Orphir, Orkney. August, 1875. I found 
one or two tufts of this growing in company with C. fiava and 
(J. fulva (Hornsuchianana, Hoppe.) I have no doubt it is a hybrid 
between these two plants. It grows in much denser tufts than the 
latter, and the herbage is of a paler and yellower green ; but its 
affinities and habit agree with fulva, Sm., not with flava, L. (See 
Mr. E. A. Pryor’s remarks on this in ‘ Journal of Botany,’ 1876, 
p. 366-370.) My experience has agreed with that of the late M. 
Boreau, for the plant has remained unchanged under cultivation 
for two years, but it has produced no mature fruit. The perig 5 mium, 
either in the wild or in the cultivated Orkney plant, has not become 
inflated ; the differences which C. xanthocarpa exhibits in different 
localities,- — in some approaching more towards C. Jiava, and in 
others to C. fulva , — are indications of its hybrid origin, as well as 
its intermediate characters and habit, and, above all, its abortive 
fruit. The Orkney specimens are the only British ones of 
(J. xanthocarpa that I have yet seen. — J. T. Boswell. 
Anthoxanthum Puelii, Lee. et Lam. On peaty ground, near the 
south-eastern extremity of Lindow Common, Hundred of Maccles- 
field, Cheshire, the rifle-range being about a quarter of a mile N.W. 
August 20, 1876. [Vide ‘Journ. Bot.,’ October, 1876, p. 309.) It 
grew freely on peaty ground, which, I am of opinion, from its 
