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parts of the kingdom in order that variations might be noted. The 
plant is rare in N. Somerset. — Jas. W. White. “A common state, 
which in the Fens has a tendency to produce its extreme, cornutusy 
— A. Fryer. 
Cyperus fuscus, L. Peaty ditch near Weston-in-Gordano, 
North Somerset, loth Sept. 1904. The experience of several years 
has shewn that there is nothing to marvel at in the fact that 
this rare plant, in its Somerset locality, eluded observation during so 
long a period. In the Walton Valley there may be twenty miles of 
ditches and possibly more. The farmers who rent the pasture 
are under obligation to rake out the main drains at least every four 
months, and in default are fined. How this plant, an annual, 
contrives to exist at all, is the marvel. For although, doubtless, 
much of it in fruit has at various times been thrown out and 
scattered on the adjacent land, we have never yet seen a specimen 
growing outside a ditch. It does not even grow on the ditch-banks, 
but only in shallow water at the bottom. In Sept. 1903 none could 
be found in those drains where the sedge was first observed, nor 
indeed anywhere else during a two hours’ search. This year 
also the original locality was a blank. However, in another part 
of the moor we came upon about a hundred yards of luxuriant 
plants in good order. — Jas. W. White. 
Cladium Jamaicense, Crantz. Wotton Underwood, Bucks, Aug. 
1904. This addition to the Bucks Flora was found by Mr. A. 
Wallis, who has been a very kind and energetic helper in my task 
of compiling the County Flora. A large but solitary patch occurred 
in a pond on a duck farm in a secluded part of the county, in 
the Vale of Aylesbury. It is on the Oxford clay and in a low-lying 
district which once was doubtless much more fen-like than it is 
at the present time. I have been unable to find it elsewhere in 
the neighbourhood. At first I thought it might have been intro- 
duced from the large piece of artificial water at Earl Temple’s 
mansion, but I have examined that situation and find it is 
not grown there. The habitat lies between the fen ground of 
Otmoor and the Eastern fens, and its occurrence may be due to 
aquatic fowl. — G. Claridge Druce. 
Carex aquatilis, Wahl., var. sphagnophila, Fr. Swamp by the 
White Water above Glen Doll, Forfar., 2nd July 1904. — E. S. 
Marshall and W. A. Shoolbred. 
C. Goodenowii, J. Gay x rigida. Good. Ref. No. 2760. Swamp 
by the White Water (2300 ft.), Clova district, Forfar, 2nd July 1904. 
This grew with the parents and C. aquatilis, var. sphagnophila. 
It is rather towards Goodenowii, but the influence of rigida is very 
evident. Sterile. Confirmed by Pfarrer G. Kiikenthal. — E. S. 
Marshall. Also sent by Mr. W. A. Shoolbred. 
