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in the mountains, a Chaerophyllum, mentioned by Lawrence. 
But what is known as ‘ kev’ here in Srinagar is a marsh plant 
with jointed spreading succulent roots which form a tangled mass 
called kevi-rath. I believe the word rath is also used for the 
Ranunculus nissanus.—This Serbian species was described by 
Capt. Petrovié in his Additamenta ad Floram Agri Nyssani, p. 21 
(1885). The name is wrongly referred by Ind. Kew. Suppl. ii. 
1 s follows: 
in beauty in his garden at the moment of writing. He giv 
no description nor does he name the real author of the species. 
icholson, Dict. Gard. Century Suppl., p. 632 (1901), repeats 
the misspelling nyssanus, and K. Schum., in Just, Jahresb. 
XXVii. i. 
book, but nissanus for that of his species s his description 
1s in Serbian the Latin translation offered below may be useful 
- e Kew library has a copy of the book, an herbarium a 
Specimen of the plant from Herb. Churchill, labelled ‘‘ F. 
Schultz, Herb. Norm. nov ser. cent. 18, n R. psilo- 
8 s, Griseb. Majo 1883. Ad margines pr ei 
; hi 
pra 
: : : ic,” to whic r. 
Churchill has annotated, “‘from Dr. Keck’s notes to Cent. 20 
and 21 of F. Schultz’s Herb. N orm., the plants are not R. psilo- 
stachys, Griseb., but instead R. nissanus, Petrovich.”’ 
Tn the absence of fruits and stolons, characters on which 
ne vié relies, I can offer no opinion as to the distinctness of 
er a ne R. psilostachys, Griseb., on the one hand and 
from R. Tenorii, Jord., on the other. | 
