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Scirpus setaceus, L. On wet land on the hillside below the railway 
station, Shandon, Dumbartonshire, 29th September 1897. New county 
record. — C harles Bailey. 
Scirpus Car ids, Retz. Southport, Lancashire, June 1896. — G. 
Claridge Druce. 
S. Caricis , Retz. Chalfont Park, Bucks. New county record. — 
G. C. Druce. 
rufus , Schrad. Near the Village of Findhorn, June 1896. — G. 
Claridge Druce. 
S. rufus , Schrad., var. bifolius (Wallr.). Growing with Scirpus rufus 
near Findhorn, and showing all gradations in the length of the 
bract. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Carex rupestris , All. On the cliffs of Cnochan, West Ross, 
and also in West Sutherlandshire, June 1895. Growing at an 
elevation of about 600 feet. These cliffs are limestone, and on 
them this sedge and several other species were added to the Rossshire 
flora. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Carex disticha , Huds. Linslade, Bucks, 1897. New county 
record. — G. C. Druce. 
C. chordorrhiza , Ehrhart. Altnaharra, West Sutherland, 4th 
August 1897. — E. S. Marshall; and from the same locality, /.<?., 
marsh near head of L. Naver, by W. A. Shoolbred. “See ‘Journ. 
Bot.’ 1898, p. 73. Anderson in ‘ Cyperaceae Scandinavia;’ p. 69, cites 
C. uliginosa , Linn., ‘Sp. PL’ ed. i., not of ‘ FI. Suec.’ as synonymous, 
but the ‘ Kew Index ’ and Richter consider C. uliginosa to be Scirpus 
Caricis. The name was published as ‘ C. chordorrhiza , L.,’ by Ehrhart. 
This addition to the British Flora is of great interest.” — G. C. Druce. 
C. paniculata , L. Near Heath, Bucks. New county record. — 
G. C. Druce. 
C. axillaris , Good., in Linn. Soc. ‘Trans.,’ ii. (1792), 151. C. 
remota x vulpina. Marcham, Berks, 1883. — G. Claridge Druce. 
C. helvola , Blytt, in Fries, ‘Bot. Notiser,’ 1849, 58, var. Ben 
Lawers, Mid-Perthshire, August 1897. See ‘Journ. Linn. Soc.,’ 1898, 
pp. 458-464.— G. Claridge Druce. “This very interesting sedge 
looks to me like a hybrid, the parentage of which I should suggest may 
be C. curta x echinata. The fruits are apparently quite sterile. Is 
not C. helvola now reckoned as a probable hybrid?” — E. S. Marshall. 
“ These specimens seem very like C. helvola , Blytt, and also to me to 
partake of the characters of C. curta , Good., and C. echinata , Murr., 
the suggested parents of Blytt’s species. On the whole, Mr. Druce’s 
plant is nearer C. curta in general appearance, the rather long and 
narrow spikelets and their pale colour, and the shortish perigynia, 
giving that impression. But the spreading habit of the plant, the 
