3i8 the botanical exchange club of the BRITISH ISLES. 
C. vesicaria, L., forma ? This was found in abundance in the 
Mere near Raincliffe Wood, Scarboro’. It was growing with typical 
C. vesicaria, L., and C. hirta, L., the former of which was abundant. 
I looked for but did not see any specimens of C. rostrata, Stokes, 
near. Many of the flowers were barren, but not all. I should like 
the opinion of the Club on this. — John Crver. A slender, narrow- 
leaved plant, which looks as if it had grown among rank herbage 
and been drawn up. Not a variety, I believe. — E. S. M. A form 
with shorter smaller perigynia than usual. — E. F. L. 
C. vesicaria, L., var. alpigena,xci\):\\ non Fries. Ben Laoigh, Mid 
Perth, v.-c. 88, 27th July 1907. 
I have named this Carex vesicaria, Linn., var. alpigena, non 
Fries. If this plant is compared (even in its half developed state) 
with Fries’ des, in ‘Nov. FI. Suec. con.’ p. 142, it will be seen that 
they do not agree in various points. In this plant the male spikes 
are commonly two ; the female spikes, when the fruit is mature, are 
always dark black and hanging on long thread-like peduncles ; 
the leaves are not sub-convolute as in C. pulla or C. Grahamii. 
I know that this plant has been confused with C. Grahamii, 
but when they are seen growing together in the same marsh, as was 
the case with the plants herewith, there is no difficulty in distin- 
guishing them, even in the young state. — P. Ewing. This differs 
from all the plants I have which have been put to var. alpigena, Fr., 
some of which appear to be nothing more than luxuriant C. pulla. 
Good. This is much nearer C. vesicaria, of which it might be an 
alpine state but for the dark brown male spikelets. I suspect, 
however, that it is a hybrid of C. vesicaria, and should like to see 
maturer fruit. — E. F. L. 
C. pulla, Good, var. Grahamii (Boott). Ben Laoigh, Mid Perth, 
27th July 1907. I have so named this plant as that is the name 
given to this form in the 9th Ed. ‘ Lond. Cat.,’ but why it is placed 
under C. pulla I do not understand ; it is neither more nor less than 
a hill form of C. vesicaria and has nothing in common with C. pulla, 
unless its ability to exist at the same altitude. — P. Ewing. I be- 
lieve that this cannot be separated from C. Grahami, Boott ; but 
it clearly comes under C. vesicaria, L,, and is not a form of C. 
saxatilis, L. {pjilla, Good.) — E.S.M. 
Panicum miliaceum, Linn. A well-established patch of several 
years’ growth occurs on the sandhills adjacent to St. Leonard’s 
Road, and St. Andrew’s Road South, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, north- 
west Lancashire, v.-c. 60. The plants contributed, with both light 
and dark-coloured spikes, were collected 12th October 1907 ; on 
a visit a month later to the same station, for mature fruits, it was 
found that frost had prevented further growth. — Charles Bailey. 
