SHORT NOTES. 185 86 & 1138. Specimens from Kobert Brown are in Herb. Mus. Brit, labelled *' Arbigtland in Galloway, 1769, Dr. Walker, who thought it was the Sclmn.ferruginem Lin." — it appears under this name in Lightfoot, 86. Dr. Walker was **its original discoverer," E. B. 1010. Eriophorum alpimim L. Sp. PI. 53 (1753). 1794. Found by Mr. Brown & Mr. Don in a moss about three miles east of Forfar." — Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 290. " Moss of Kestenet, Forfar- shire, first found in Aug. 1791, in company with Mr. George Don." — R. Brown in Herb. Mus. Brit. E. vaginatum L. Sp. PI. 52 (1753). 1641. Gramen junceum montanum subcaerulea spica. Mosse-crops." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 23. E. angustifolium Roth, Tent. i. 24 (1788). 1597. " Upon a bog at further end of Hampsted heath," &c. — Ger. 27. E. latifolium Hoppe, Taschenb. 1800, 108. 1794. "I found this first in bogs in Northamptonshire." — J. Dickson in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 289. See also E. B. 563. Specimens collected by Dickson in 1792 are in Herb. Mus. Brit. E. gracile Koch ap. Roth, Catalect. ii. 259 (1800). 1835. Discovered in 1835 by Joseph Woods near Halnaby, Yorkshire. — Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 290. Rynchospora fusca Dry and. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, i. 127 (1810). 1716. *' I found this plentifully in a bog between South- ampton and Limington in August." — Petiver, Cone. Gram. no. 148. R. alba Vahl, Enum. ii. 229 (1806). 1633. ** I never found this but once, and that was in the companie of M. Thomas Smith and M. James Clarke, Apothecaries of London ; we riding into Windsore Forest upon the search of rare plants." — Johnson, Ger. Emac. 30(2). (To be continued.) SHORT NOTES, Carex depauperata. — Mr. Jackson, in Index Kewensis,- prints under Carex, ^' ventricosa Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. vi. t. 68 = depauperata." "depauperata Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. (1794), 181." It is of course obvious that Curtis's name claims precedence over Goodenough's, for it is quoted by the latter when establishing his depauperata. Curtis, when describing his plant, says : *' The late Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, who had seen it growing with me, was pleased to call it depauperata, from the paucity of its flowers, a name in which we sometime acquiesced ; but, on maturer consideration, we think the name we have now given it more expressive of its principal character " (Curtis, I. c). Yet it seems to me that depauperata must stand as the specific name of the plant, not on the authority of Goodenough, but on that of Curtis, who published it in his Catalogue of the ... . Plants cultivated in the London Botanic
