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I. Carex Tomentosa, L. 
Mr. H. H. Knight’s note ( Proc ., xx. 66) moves me to put 
on paper further interesting facts about the occurrence of 
Carex Tomentosa, L. 
It was recorded first from Marston Meysey, in Wilts, and 
was for long certainly known only from that locality. Buckman 
however, in his Botany of the Environs of Cheltenham, p. 54 
(1844), gives it in a list of sedges, though without further 
localising it. 
His record was doubted by Watson ( Topographical Botany, 
editions 1st and 2nd) and by the author of English Botany, 
and regarded as a " misnomer ” by W. L. Notcutt in his papers 
read before the Cheltenham Working Naturalists’ Association 
(1861 and later). Mr. Druce’s discovery of the species near 
Fairford did not go far to establish Buckman’s accuracy. 
It grows in quite a number of spots in that neighbourhood — 
roadside greenswards, water meadows and the like. I myself 
discovered it in a likely-looking meadow about 1908, simply 
because the look of the place invited search. Along with it 
grew also C. flacca, and an intermediate-looking plant that 
might be a hybrid of the two species. But this is all far enough 
from Cheltenham. 
Some few years ago, however, Mr. W. J. Greenwood, of 
Cirencester, showed me a specimen of C. tomentosa which he 
had found in Chedworth Woods ; and now Mr. Knight’s 
discovery pf it at Withington quite brings it within the 
Cheltenham neighbourhood, and establishes Buckman’s record ; 
though in the absence of specimens it is impossible to say if 
Buckman did actually get hold of the right plant. 
But the story has a sequel. Last year, 1918, a botanical 
friend sent me a specimen of the sedge, along with the same 
intermediate form mentioned above, from the dry oolite downs 
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