22 K. A. PKYOR NOTES ON A PROPOSED 



of all sources of inforniation that were at my disposal, and I am 

 especially indebted to the excellent ' Flora of Middlesex ' for a con- 

 siderable portion of my material : at present but very little is 

 known of the Botany of the adjacent districts of Buckinghamshire. 

 I -will now proceed with my enumeration. 



Anemone Apennina. — Berry Wood, Aldenham. I have seen 

 during the past fortnight the young leaves and buds of this pretty 

 Ajiemone in the Vicarage garden at Aldenham ; into which the 

 roots were introduced fi'om Berry Wood more than thirty years 

 ago by the late Lady Rendlesham. Although I was unsuccessful 

 in finding the Anemone in the wood itself, probably owing to the 

 backwardness of the season, I am assured that it still grows there, 

 although less plentifully than in former years. It would appear to 

 be well naturalized. 



Anemone rammcidoides. — Both the herbarium specimens that 

 I have seen and the book records are about equally di\-ided between 

 King's and Abbot's Langley ; nor can the locality, " in a field a 

 quarter of a mile south of Abbot's Langley " very well be the same 

 with that more usually given, "under a tree on a lawn." It is 

 curious that there should be so much uncertainty about the precise 

 station of a plant which has long enjoyed a perhaps unmerited 

 degree of notoriety. 



Ranunculus aquatiUs. — Very little is known about the Batrachian 

 Eanunculi of the Watford district. There is a specimen of 

 R. submersus gathered about ten years back at Cashiobury in Pro- 

 fessor Babington's herbarium, and the same plant is recorded from 

 Harefield, under the name of R. JDroiietii, in the ' Flora of Middlesex.' 

 R. fluitam and R. pseudofluitans both occur in the same neighbour- 

 hood, and this last is not improbably, judging from Mr. Coleman's 

 specimens, which have a hispid receptacle and long stamens, the 

 R.fluitans of the ' Flora Hertfordiensis.' R. pantothrix of the same 

 work, in the absence of the original specimens, must remain quite 

 a doubtful plant. Subject to this uncertainty, they have each 

 been recorded for the district. Both R. truncatus and Jlorihundus 

 will doubtless, as in Middlesex, be found to occur. 



Ranunculus hederaceus. — Bacher Heath; and between Scott'sBridge 

 and Rickmansworth. One or both of these localities may perhaps 

 produce the floating form, R. Uomceophlhjtcs of Mr. Hiem's paper. 



Rapavcr duhium. — Watford ? ; wall of Aldenham Churchyard. 

 R. Lecoqii has perhaps occurred at Pinner, but P. Lamottei is the 

 usual Middlesex plant. 



Dentaria huJbifera. — Loudwater Wood ; near High Wood, Rick- 

 mansworth ; lied H(iath ; Garret Wood ; and probably in other 

 woods in the neighbourhood. Blackstone first discovered the 

 Coral-woi't about Harefield in 1734, but Parkinson liad previously 

 met Avitli it in Sussex. Lunaria redivira, "the second kind of 

 Bolbonac or White Sattin," according to Gerarde, " groweth about 

 Watford." Is it altogether iin])ossible tliat the mistake should 

 have arisen from some confused account of the occiUTcuce of 

 Lentaria in the district ? 



