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Corema intermedia, sp. nov. Planta fossilis nisi fructus 

 ignota. Drupa . . . endocarpiis 3, longit. 2-2-2-5, latit. 2-0-2-5 mm.; 

 monospermis ovatis osseis extus incrassatis, dorso irregulariter 

 costatis, facie canaliculatis. Testa tenuis membranacea alveolata, 

 alveolis irregulariter transversis. 



Endocarps 3, ovate, hard, bony, thick-walled, irregularly ribbed 

 longitudinally on the dorsal surface, channelled on the ventral 

 face and facetted at an angle of about 120". Seed with a thin 

 membranous testa with cells arranged in irregular zigzag trans- 

 verse lines. Length of endocarps 2-2-3-0 mm. ; breadth 2-0- 

 2-5 mm. 



In size our endocarps are midway between those of C. alba 

 and C. ConracU. In shape they resemble C. alba, though they 

 are considerably smaller, more ovate, and less tumid. To C. 

 Conradi, which has minute fruits, they bear little resemblance. 

 The very peculiar cells of the membranous adherent testa are like 

 those of C. alba, but the adhesion of this testa to the endocarp 

 makes it difficult to examine in the fossil, and we have been 

 unable to photograph its very characteristic structure, though 

 this can be seen in places in the interior of the specimen shown 

 in fig. m. 



NOTES ON BKITISH PLANTS. 

 By C. E. Moss. 



II. Eanunculus obtusifloeus. 



It seems to be generally admitted by modern systematic 

 botanists that Bammculus baudotii Godron (1839) " and B. con- 

 fusus Godron (1848) should be reduced to a single species. They 

 were, in fact, so reduced by Syme (1863), by Sir J. D. Hooker 

 (1884), and by Rouy & Foucaud (1893). Syme united Godron's 

 two plants under the name B. baudotii, and gave each a varietal 

 name: B. baudotii Godron became B. baudotii var. vulgaris Syme 

 (1863) ; and B. confusus Godron became B. baudotii var. confusus 

 Syme (1863). Hooker named the same aggregate species (i. e., 

 B. baudotii Godron ampl. Syme) B. marinus, and mentioned that 

 he could not verify the characters of the varieties as constant. 

 Rouy & Foucaud used the same aggregate name as Syme, and 

 reduced B. confusus Godron to a subspecies. Mr. N. E. Brown 

 (1891) also expressed the opinion that B. baudotii Godron and 

 B. confusus Godron are only forms of one and the same species. 



This aggregate species {B. baudotii Godron ampl. Syme) has a 

 west-European and Mediterranean distribution ; but it is not so 

 markedly Atlantic in its range as the allied species B. homio- 

 phyllus Tenore, 1830 {=B. lenormandi Schultz 1837), B. tripar- 

 titus DC. (1808), andi?. hololmcus Lloyd (1844): this last is not 

 known to be a British plant ; but one feels that it must 

 occur in southern England, or at least in the Channel Islands. 



* Full citations are given later on in this note. 



