182 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF 

 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB FOR 1876. 



"Ranunculus triphijUos, Walli'." Ditch, Mitcham Common, 

 Sm-rey, Jime, 1876 ; H. Groves. Mr. Baker says Mr. Hierii lias seen 

 this. — '* R. triphijllus:' Pit in Park, Tabley, Cheshire, June, 1870. 

 I follow Mr. Hiern in thus naming this specimen. — J. L. Warren. 

 Of Mr. Grove's plant from Mitcham, Dr. Boswell says : " This 

 plant is the one I had in view in describing R. heterophylhis in the 

 third edition of ' Engl. Botany.' The carpels being glabrous or 

 more or less hispid, I believe to be an inconstant character, and 

 that this form is only distinguishable fi'om radians and Godronii by 

 its larger flowers." Of the Tabley plant : "This is heterophylhis, 

 Fries, ' E. B.', ed. iii. The carpels are conspicuously hispid, 

 contrary to Mr. Hiern' s statement in ' Journal of Botany.' " — J. T. 

 Bosw^LL. — R. triphyllos, from Mitcham ; Mr. Groves. If this is 

 indeed the triphyllos of Hiern, his idea of it is very different from 

 mine. I call it heterophylhis, and in a not uncommon form. Both 

 of Mr. Harbord Lewis's plants I believe to be forms of raj hetero- 

 phylhis, not radians. I say the same of Mr. Baker's two plants 

 from Warwick. — C. C. Babington. — The plant sent by Mr. Harbord 

 Lewis as R. capillaceus, Thuill., from ditch at Crosby, Lancashire, 

 seems to be R. suhmersus, i.e., R. heterophylhis, Bab., without floating 

 leaves ; but the specimens are too imperfect to enable me to be sure 

 of the name : they have no mature fruit. — J. T. Boswell. 



" R. radians.'' Plentiful in a pond at Floors, Roxburgh, July, 

 1876. — Andrew Brotherston. With the note by Dr. Boswell 

 appended: " R. Godronii. See the hairs on the under side of the 

 floating leaves." — I agree with Dr. Boswell, and say Godronii. — C. 

 C. Babington. 



R. salsuginosus. Tweed, near Kelso, Roxburgh, July, 1875. 

 This form is frequent in the Tweed. — Andrew Brotherston. To 

 this note of Mr. Brotherston' s Dr. Boswell appended the following: 

 " I don't know what to call this ; it is not salsuginosus, which 

 is R. confusits without floating leaves. It reminds me of a XDlant 

 from Hertfordshire, sent by Mr. T. B. Blow." — Probably correct 

 according to Hiern's nomenclature, but a state of confusus. — C. C. 

 Babington. 



Viola lactea, Sm., b. intermedia, Wats. By a hedge-bank, Egg 

 Buckland Down (long ago enclosed), S. Devon, May 11, 1876; 

 T. R. Archer Briggs. This seems quite the same as Mr. 

 Watson's plant mentioned in the ' Bot. Exchange Club Report ' 

 for 1875, p. 10, which was collected by the heathy way- side, north 

 of Fleetpond, Hants, June, 1875, by Messrs. Watson and Warren, 

 which I suggested might be V. stricta, Hornemann. Mr. Watson 

 this year, besides a number of diied specimens, sent me living 

 plants of the Fleetpond violet ; and I think there can be no doubt 

 that they are lactea, and not stricta. In V. stricta the flowering 

 stems are elongated and straight in fruit ; but this is not 



