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 186 KEPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB.

Carex arenar'ia, Linn. " Sandy ground near Frensliam, Surrey." — H. C. Watson. These inland specimens are quite similar to the mari- time ones, and show no tendency to become 0. disticka, Huds., which Mr. Benthasn considers merely "an inland variety of C. areuaria.''

C. aquatUis, Waiil. ?, var. Watsoiii. " River Don, at Dyce, Aberdeen." — J. lloY. Dr. Roy has been good enough to send living specimens of the Carex supposed to be C. acuta, which grows in the river Don, near Aberdeen. As I expected, it proves to be C. TFatsonl. The leaves are narrower and much more glaucous than in the alpine form of C. arjnatiUs, the stems 2 to 3 feet high. Dr. Hooker, in the ' Student's Flora,' inad- vertently quotes my var. Walsoni as a synonym of Dr. Boott's "var. 2, minor," instt-ad of under "var. 1, aqiiatilis proper," under which, I siippose, it ought to be, though the stem can scarcely be described as " scaberulous above."

Carex flava, var. lepidocarpa. " Orrock Hill, Fife." — J. BosWELL Syme. I collected a few specimens of this plant, but not nearly enough to satisfy the demands for it. 'J his can only be from the plant not being properly known. I am coutirnied in this opinion by some remarks by a botanist so well acquainted with Carices as Mr. Sidebotham at the Literary and Fiiilosophical Society of Manchester, where he remarks that in C lepidocarpa the fruit is " pale green, or yellowish-green, and the beak straight." There is no perceptible diflerence in the colour of the fmit of C. lepidocarpa aiul C.fava (jenidna when examined in the same stage of ripeness. They bolh cominence with being green and end with being brownish-yellow, and the beak of C. lepidocarpa is always detiexed, tbougii not so much so as in the genuine form. Mr. Sidebotham's remarks respecting C. lepidocarpa would rather apply to C. (Ederi. C. Q^deri has no special partiality for the coast, either in England or Scotland ; this is in answer to a query put in the April number of the 'Journal of Botany.' (Yol. Y. p. 127).

C. punctata, Gaiul. " Co. Cork." — L Carroll. Mr. A. G. More has sent a specimen of the veritable plant, so that the ? given after L'eland, in the third edition of 'English Botany,' vol. x. p. ]51, must be ex- punged.

Alopecurus f ulcus, Sm. " The locality from which the specimen was gathered was discovered by Eev. W. H. Puvchas in IS 69; the plant is new to Herefordshire." — A. Ley.

y4r/rostis setac.ea, Curtis. " Sparingly on Woking Lleath, between the Woking Station and the Dramatic College; confirming the grass to the county of Surrey, although in a different part of it from the old and doubted localities." — H. C. W'atson.

Aba uliginosa, Weihe. " Swampy hollows, nearly dry in July, on Woking Heath, Surrey ; one of them about a quarter of a mile southward from the Dramatic College, the other f.bout the like distance nearer to Woking Station. It may shortly become extinct in both, tin'ough the progress of enclosure and drainage. Some specimens were dried for distribution, as better showing the tufted growth than did those brought from Fleet Pond, Hampshire, in 1869, two months later in the season." — H. C. Watson. " Still occurs at Loch of Park, and in profusion near Loch Connor, between Aboyne and Ballater ; indeed I liave a suspicion now that it is abundant in the interior of this district, but at presenr, I can speak with certainty as to these two localities only. The alti- tude of Loch Connor is 600 feet."— J. PiOY.

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