RANUNCULUS 21 



First record. R. bulbosiis, Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. Common in all 

 the pastures at Hampstead Norris and in the Vale, Mr. Lousley 

 in Russell's Cat. 1839. 



It is possible that the manuscript note by Wm. Browne, which is 

 contained in the Magdalen College copy of [How's] Phyt. Brit, may 

 refer to a form of R. hulbosus : ' Ranunculus puniilus floribus deciduis. The 

 whole plant seldom exceeds three inches in compass and in his full 

 strength of flowering is not above an inch or two high. Amongst 

 a hundred plants of them I found not far from Oxford, though it was 

 in ye time of their flowering, I could not find one with a whole 

 flower, several of them had three, four, or five little yellow leaves of 

 flowers about a small thrum of yellow pointalls and every plant had 

 fresh yellow pointalls, with the leaves as it were new fallen off.' The 

 date of this record would be about 1652. 



The dwarf form with very hairy leaves and one-flowered stem, which 

 I have from Loddon Bridge, &c., is the var. parvulus, Clavand. The 

 flowers are occasionally double ; I found an example near Marcham. 

 When growing in very barren soil the leaves are more deeply cut 

 ^the R. brachiatus, Schleicher, Cat. PI. Helv. ed. 3, 24). 



R. bulbosus, which is found in all the bordering counties, occurs 

 on the top of Gibbet Hill, which is 950 feet above sea level. 



R. auricomus, Linn. Sp. PL 551 ^1753), and of Gerard. Goldilocks, 

 Wood Crowfoot. 



Top. Bot. 12. Syme, E. B. i. 36, t. 32. Nyman, 12. Fl. Oxf. 5. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Septal. Woods, hedgerows, &c. Locally common 



and widely distributed in shady sylvan situations. P. April - 



May. 

 First record. R. auricomus. [About Marlow.] Mr. G. G. Mill in 



Phyt. i. (1843 \ 983, and by Mr. T. B. Flower in Robeiison's Env. oj 



Reading, 1843. 



1. Isis. Buckland. Pusey, Boswell. Tubney. Cumnor. Buscot. 



Wytham. Appleton Lower Common, &c. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Denchworth, Wait. Bagley. Besils- 



leigh. Wittenham. Lockinge. Wantage. Pusey. Sunning- 

 well. Boar's Hill, with quite pei-fect flowers. 



3. Pang. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Streatley, Pamplin. Yattendon. 



Frilsham. Englefield. Unwell Wood. Ashampstead Common. 

 Bucklebury. Basildon. Sulham, &c. At Bradfield it grew in the 

 Park on almost bare ground under trees ; the flowers were large 

 and had perfect petals. It may be the var. grandiflorus, Keichb. 



4. Kennet. Near Reading, Floicer. Thatcham, Jackson. Wickham. 



Welford. Curridge. Hungerford. Chilton Foliat. Kintbury. 

 Aldermaston. Burghfield. W. Ilsley, &c. 



