II 8 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Carex salina (Wg.), as an aggregate species occurs in Iceland ! 
Spitzbergen * Lapland ! the Faroes, Norway ! Sweden ! Nova 
Zerabla, British America ! British Columbia ! United States ! Green- 
land ! and probably eleswhere, but I have not yet been enabled to 
specially “ look up ” its stations. Of our species it comes nearest to 
C. aquatilis, Wg., var. Watsoni ', Syme., but differs in being a much 
more robust plant, with paludosaAdke foliage, the glumes of the female 
spikes aristate, and very rough, three-neved, and the whole plant dries 
a peculiar yellowish green colour, at once recognisable by the eye 
once seen. Taking the European distribution of salina , one of its 
stations is Goteburg in Sweden, about one degree further south than 
Wick, and I am prepared to hear of its discovery at the estuaries of 
some of the rivers that fall into the Moray Firth, where its associates 
are recorded, i.e., Juntas balticus and Carex incurva: 
Carex fulva , Good. Rahoy and Sunart, Argyleshire, nth Aug., 
1884. — W. R. Linton. Mr. Linton sent me this in the autumn named 
“ C. distansP I suggested it rather came under fulva , as an aggregate. 
Mr. Beeby suggests C. xanthocarpa , Degland, in which I think he is 
probably correct, but I have not seen a type specimen of Degland’s 
plant, and in Carices I should decline to name any specimen 
decisively until I had. 
Carex fulva , Good. Bisley Common, Surrey, 22nd June, 1884, 
and Bagshot Heath, Surrey, 4th Aug., 1884. To confirm new county 
record, “Journ. of Bot.,” 1884, p. 300. — W. H. Beeby. 
Carex flava, L., v. minor. Seckley Wood, Arley, Staffordshire, 
7th July, 1884. — J. Fraser. “The type, I believe.” — J. G. Baker. 
“ I call this C. flava, L., var. lepidocarpa , Tausch. I do not under- 
stand the new arrangement of the flava and CEderi forms.” — T. R. 
Archer Briggs. This is certainly -C. flava , . genuina , and not minor , 
or the true lepidocarpa , Tausch. 
Carex CEderi , Ehrh ? = C. lepidocarpa of “Top. Bot.,” H. C. W. 
Not recorded previously for the county. Ross Links, Northumber- 
land (Cheviotland, v.c.) — H. E. Fox. Mr. Beeby suggests perhaps it 
is “ flava-minorP I think it is rightly named. 
Carex ampullacea x vesicaria. Skye, 4th Aug., 1884. — W. R. 
Linton. “ C. vesicaria , I suppose.” — C. C. Babington. 
Agrostis ? Wimblington Firelots, Cambridgeshire, 1884, 
A. Fryer. “Somewhat abnormal A. canina , L., the culms are partly 
decumbent and rooting on the lower joints, from them spring up 
capillary leaves, as it is in all species of Agrostis when branches come 
from the culm-nodes. A. canina, L., seems very disposed to this 
manner of growth, if circumstances favour it. I do not believe it 
worth making a proper variety, because it depends on local influences.” 
Prof. E. Hackel in litt. 
Agrostis alba. Broadfoot, Skye, 30th July, 1884. — W. R. Linton. 
“ Is A. alba, b. subrepens , Bab. Manual; perhaps also the A. stolonifera 
b. arenaria, L., Sp. pi. ed. 2 (A. alba stolonifera , Sm.). I cannot 
assert the synonymy of Linneus (because the Swedish work is not at 
hand where described), but I take Babington’s name as the best until 
the question of Linneus’ plant shall be settled.” — Prof. E. Hackel 
in litt. 
