4 RANUNCULACEAE 



fig. 4639. This has the panicle more contracted and the fruits 

 globular-ovoid in shape, and has been noticed in the Binsey meadows. 

 The third form is the T. riparium of Jordan's Diagnoses, 49, "vvhere it 

 is described as a distinct species. -The author says that the leaflets 

 are shorter and larger, more deej/ly cut at the top and often trifid, 

 the lobes often dentate, the pa' xcle more leafy, and the anthers larger 

 than in T. Jlavian. According to Syme it has a laxer panicle than the 

 var. sphaerocarpiim, and the fruits are oval-ovoid. This occurs by some 

 of the small ti'ibutaries of the Upper Thames, and appears to flower 

 earlier than the type. It is not often that we can distinguish these 

 varieties with certainty because the fruits are so liable to be attacked by 

 a gall insect, which destroys their natural shape in the vast majority 

 of cases before they become mature. My idea is that at present we 

 have, so far as our local plants are concerned, no good descriptions of 

 these varieties, and that we need comparative cultivation of the more 

 marked forms. It is very certain that a laxly panicled form is some- 

 times found with oval fruit, and that a plant with a contracted 

 panicle may have oblong fruit. 



T. MAjus. Error. Mr. Watson in the Cyhele Britannica states that T. majus 

 was recorded for the Thames province by Dr. Mavor, and Dr. M. T. Masters 

 in a paper on the Oxford Flora, read before the Ashmolean Society in 1857, 

 refers to its extinction. The plant recorded by Dr. Mavor as T. majus was 

 T. flavum. 



ANEMONE, Linn. Gen. n. 614 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 147). 



A. Pulsatilla, Linn. Sp. PI. 539 (1753). Pasque Flower. 



Pulsatilla vulgaris (Lobel. 1581), Miller, Gai-d. Diet. (1768'. Pulsa- 

 tilla, Matth. Anemone pratensis, Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 169 (not of Linn.). 



Top. Bot. 4. Syme, E. B. i. 10, t. 9. Nyman, 2. Cyb. Br. 74. Fl. Oxf. 2. 



Native. Pascual. Grassy chalk downs. Local and not common. P. 

 April-May. 



First record. It groweth about Oxford as my fi-ende Falconer 

 tolde me. Turner, Herball, 1551. Recorded for the first time 

 from a definite Berkshire locality by Dr. Lightfoot about 1790. 

 The first printed record appears to be in Mavor's Ayr. Berks, 

 1809, where it is said on the authority of Mr. Bicheno to grow 

 on Ilsley Downs. 



2. Ock. Among grass near Pusey, Miss F. M. Parker. 



3. Pang. At Streatley, 8 miles from Reading, Lightfoot' s MS. Also 



in Purt. Midi. Flora, 1821 ! Ilsley Downs, Bicheno, in Mavor s Agr. 

 Berks, and Hewett, 1839, in Herb. Brit. Mus. ! On the downs 

 between Ilsley and Coinpton, but scarce ; on the downs near 

 Unhill Wood, plentiful, Lousley, in Russell's Cat. ! Unhill and 

 Yewtrce Downs, Heivett's Hist. I Streatley and Pangbourn are the 



