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cordate, the lobes will be much less heavy than in the typical 

 paiustris, — will seldom approach, and never overlap. I think 

 the peculiar triangular leaf is deciduous, withering soon after 

 the seed is discharged. Unlike the variety Guerangerii of pai- 

 ustris, the carpel beaks of our plant cannot be described as long ; 

 unlike variety minor, its carpels are divaricately arranged, and its 

 only known station has an elevation of scarcely over 200 feet. 

 PaJustris in its ordinary condition is a larger, coarser plant, with 

 leaves which are less flat, and of different outline. But the root- 

 ing, as the name implies, is the important point of difference. 

 The other plants root, so far as I have been able to make out, 

 at about one joint The leaves are no doubt peculiar, but the 

 common pahistris and the minor tone in at every character of 

 the leaf. The non-contiguous sepal is the character which is 

 most easily noticed. It was that principally which led to the 

 rediscovery. 



Mr Druce, of Oxford, was here two weeks ago. He knows the 

 plant at Kew. When I showed him our plant, he at once said 

 (speaking of the leaves), "That is just it;" and afterwards re- 

 marked that the closeness was much more striking than he ex- 

 pected to find it. On the 9th current Mr Babington writes : 

 " I have no doubt that we have the true Caltha radicans of Don 

 in the place where you have found it. It now remains to be seen 

 if it is in other spots near. I should expect to find it in any 

 bog from which any of the streams flow, or other wet places. 

 It seems best suited for peaty ground where it can run and root 

 on the fairly level ground. I do not at all think that it is the 

 same as the variety minor of paluslris, which is sometimes found 

 anion 2j the hills." 



Rescobie, ^ist August \%%2. 



THE GAELIC NAMES OF PLANTS. 



By JOHN CAMERON. 



(Continued from p. 305.) 



APPENDIX.— ADDITIONAL NAMES. 



THESE names were either unintentionally omitted, or did 

 not come under my observation until too late for inser- 

 tion in their proper botanical order. 



