14 RANUNCULACE^. 



Wet fields and roadsides ; rare. A. May — June. 

 IV. Pinner Drive, a single plant, F. W. Farrar ; Melvill, 2. 



V. Near an orchard close to Perivale Farm ; Lees. 



VI. Field bet. Edmonton and a house thereby, called Pirns ; Ger. 346. 

 Edmonton, J. Woods ; B. G. 403. Bet. Edmonton and Enfield, 1819 ; 

 E. T. Bennett (v. s.). 

 VII. [Way from London to Hampstead, on a barren ditch bank ; Ger. 346. 

 In Chelsea meadow ; Merrett, 24. In a sloughy lane near the DeAnl's 

 house going to Hornsey ; Pet. Midd. About Hornsey ; Blackst. 

 MSS. Near Marylebone Park and meadows behind KentishT own 

 Chapel ; Lane from Copenhagen house to Kentish Town, Dr. Wilmer ; 

 Blackst. Spec. 57- Kentish Town ; Dicks. Hort. Sic. About Islington, 

 Paddington, and Pancras ; Czcrt. F. L. Wet fields by the Harrow 

 Koad, near where the Gr. W. R. Terminus now stands, 1825 abund- 

 antly ; Pamplin. Harrow Road, 1833 ; Herb. G. and B. (Ken Wood, 

 Hunter; Park Hampst. 29.)] 

 First record: Gerarde, 1597; also first as a British plant. Not met 

 with recently about London, though formerly common ; the plant at 

 Pinner Drive was probably brought from elsewhere, with soil used 

 in making the road. 



RANUNCULUS, Linn. 



5. ? R. Brouetii, Schultz. 



Cyb. Br. Supp. 49, 77 ; Comp. 81. Syme E. B. i. t. 21. 



Ponds and ditches ; rather common ? P. April — June. 

 I. Pinner, W. M. H. ; Melvill, 2. Harefield ! ; Newb. Ruislip Moor. 

 V. Greenford (and ' R. trichophyllus'), W. M. H. ; Melvill, 2. Near 

 Shepherd's Bush Station ! ; Newb. 



VI. Near Hadley ! ; Warren. Whetstone. 



VII. Green Lanes, Newington ! ; Newb. New West End, Hampstead. 



First record : Hind, 1860. It is difficult to decide whether the Middlesex 

 plant should be referred to this or R. trichophyllus, Chaix, if, indeed, 

 it be referable to either. There seems, however, to be but one form 

 in the county. 



6. R. peltatus, Fries {Syme). Water Crowfoot. 



Ban. aquaticus hepaticcs facie, Lob. (Johns.). B. aquatilis, Ger. em. 



(Blackst.). B. aquatilis, L. {in part.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 77 ; Comp. 81. 



o. B.floribundus,'Bah. E. B. S. 2969, reproduced in Syme E. B. i. 1. 18. 



Ponds and still parts of streams ; very common. P. April — June." 



This is the plant to which, till lately, the name B. aquatilis was generally 



applied by London botanists ; it is the commonest aquatic Ranunculus 



in Middlesex. Professor Babington notices (£". B. S. loc. cit.) it as 



' common on the north side of London.' 



