228 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. ditches."— R. 0. C. App. i. 5. Harefield" (Middx.).— Blackstone, Fasc. 56 (1737). C. axillaris Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 151 (1792). 1792. " Mr. Curtis first found it near Putney." — Goodenough, I. c. But it had been previously distinguished from 0. remota by Buddie. C. Boenninghausiana Weihe in Flora, ix. 759 (1826). 1643. '♦Near Hertford. Rev. W. H. Coleman."— Bab. Man. ed. 1, 388. "Was first recognized as a distinct species by Mr. Coleman in 1842."— Webb, Fl. Hertfordiensis, 315. C. helvola Blytt in Nya Bot. Notiser, 58 (1849). 1886. Col- lected by Prof. Balfour at Lochnagar, N.B., Aug. 11, 1846, and named C. curta var. alpicola. Recorded as C. Jielvola Blytt by Arthur Bennett in Journ. Bot. 1886, 149. C. elongata L. Sp. PI. 974 (1753). 1808. "Mr. Jonathan Salt discovered this in June, 1807, in a marshy place at Aldwark, near the river Don, below Sheffield."— E. B. 1920. C. lagopina Wahlenb. in Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 145 (1803). 1838. "Discovered on rocks in Lochnagar, Scotland, in Aug. 1836, by Mr. Dickie & Mr. Clark."— E. B. Suppl. 2815. C. canescens L. Sp. PL 974 (1753). 0. curta Good. (1792). 1670. " Gramen cyper. palustre elegans spica composita asperiore. In a pool not far from Middleton towards Coleshill in Warwick- shire," &c.— Ray Cat. 147. C. leporina L. Sp. PI. 973 (1753). C. ovalis Good. (1792). 1690. " Gramen cyperoides spica e pluribus spicis brevibus molli- bus composita ... In pascuis locis humidioribus copiose." — Ray Syn. i. 197. "In a wood near the boarded river" (Middx.). — Petiver in Gibson's Camden (1695). C. alpina Sw. in Liljeb. Utk. Svensk Flora, ed. 2, 26 (1798). 1830. Discovered in 1830 by Prof. Balfour and Dr. Greville " among some precipitous rocks which surround a small loch about two miles above Loch Callader." — E. B. Supp. 2666 (C. Vahhi). C. atrata L. Sp. PI. 976 (1753). 1777. '* Upon the highland mountains frequent as upon Benteskerney . . . in Breadalbane." — Lightfoot, Fl. Scot. 555. C. fusca All. Fl. Ped. ii. 269 (1785). C. Buxhaumii Wahl. (1803). 1835. Found in 1835 " on one of the small islands of Lough Neagh, County Derry. D. Moore." — Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 305. C. elata All. Fl. Ped. ii. 272 (1785) (0. stricta Good, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 196 (1792). 1792. " Prope Norwich. D. Pitchford." — Goodenough, I. c. For earlier (? doubtful) synonyms see Bab. Fl. Cambs. 260 ; Ray Syn. ii. 264, 4 ; and Huds. ii. 412 (c^spitosa). C. acuta L. Sp. PL 978, var. /?. (1753). C. gracilis Curt. Fl. Lond. iv. 62 (c. 1783). 1670. " Gramen cyp. majus angustifol. . . . in pratis humidis." — Ray Cat. 143. "In Battersea meadows." — Curtis, I. c. C. trinervis Degland in Loisel. Fl. Gall. 731 (1807). 1884. Foiind in 1869-70, in Norfolk, by Mr. H. G. Glasspoole.— Journ. Bot. 1884, 125. (To be continued.)
