MR. A. BENNETT ON CAREX BARA BOX A ANI) LASTREA CRISTATA. 695 
XIII. 
ON CAREX PARADOX A AND LASTREA CRISTATA 
IN BRITAIN. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 23rd February, 190J f . 
For many years one York locality, ami the one Irish one, were 
the only ones known for the Care.r. It had been passed over 
as h‘ retinacula by good English botanists, until Mr. Borrer identified 
it with the continental species ; and in 185*2 Mr. 11. C. Watson 
had only one county to record it from in his ‘ Cybele Hritannica,’ 
vol. iii. 108. From paniculata and teretinxcula it can be at once 
identified by the large number of frayed sheaths at the base of 
the stem; unfortunately this character is not shown in the English 
Botany plate, Supp. "2899 (t. 16*21 of the 3rd edition). 
Carex paradoxa. Willd., in Act. Acad. Ilerol, t. i, fig. 1, 
p. 39, 1794. 
C. paniculata. L., sub-sp. C. paradoxa, Willd., Hook. Stud. 
Flora, ed. iii., 450, 1884. 
So far as I know there is no real English name for this Carex. 
Distribution : — 
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland — centre and south, Germany, 
Holland, Belgium, France, X. Italy, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, 
Serbia, Russia — middle and west, Switzerland. 
In England : — 
20. Herts. 
“It grows also in the contiguous meadows in Herts.” J. of 
Botany, 339, 1885. 
Uxbridge marshes, sp. 
21. Middlesex. 
Canal near W. Drayton, 1872. Hon. I.. M arrcn. J. Bot. 380, 
1873. 
