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garden at Bayswater ; ' Don Dichlam. Plants, i. 37. This plant is said 

 to have had a reflexed calyx. Mr. Syme considers it ' probably only a 

 form of repens^ (E. B. i. 41). "We have seen no specimens.] 



16. R. bulbosus, L. Bulbous Buttercup. 



R. pratensis rod. verticilli modo rotunda, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 88 ; iii. 374 ; Comp. 84. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 

 Kich meadows and pastures ; very common. P. May — June. 

 Though less common than the two last, this species is also generally dis- 

 tributed. 

 VII. The meadows round London abound with it. Hyde Park. Isle of 

 Dogs. Highbury. Kensington Gardens, 1868 ; Warren (v. s.). 

 First vecord: Johnson, 1632. With white flowers ; VII, Brompton Ceme- 

 tery, by the catacombs, 1859-63, J. Britten ; Phyt. N. S. vi. 692. 



17. R. birsutus. Curt. 



R. rectus, fol, pallidioribus hirsutis, J. B. (Merrett). Ran. annuiis trilo- 



hatus lucidus (Doody). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 89 ; iii. 374 ; Comp. 84. Curt. P. L. f. 2,^ 

 Waste land in damp places ; very rare. A. June — September. 



V. Acton Green !, 1867 ; Newb. 



VII. Below Hampstead, in the meadows betwixt the town and the heath ; 

 Merrett, 102. [About Paddington; Doody, M8S.'\ Field bet. Hamp- 

 stead and Kentish Town, E. H. Button ; Cooper Supp. 11. Chelsea 

 College, 1861; Britten. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666; also the earliest notice of the plant as 

 British. The Acton plant is R. parvulus, li , a small form of hirsutus. 



18. R. arvensis, L. Cor?i Crowfoot. Hedgehogs. 

 R. arv. echinatus, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 91 ; Comp. 85. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 



Cornfields and waste ground ; common. A. June — August. 



I. Cornfields, Harefield, frequent; Blackst. Fasc. 84. Wood Hall, Pinner, 



abundant. Harrow Weald Common. Near Elstree. Uxbridge ; Cole. 

 II. Near Staines, 1841 ; Herb. Young. A single plant, Staines, 1866. 



Stanwell Moor, 1867. 



III. Cornfields near Hounslow ; Bemsley. A few plants by the roadside 



near Heston. Isleworth ; Cole. 



IV. Stanmore, 1858 ; Pinner Drive ; Melvill, 3. Fields by Hampstead 



Wood; Coofer, 101. Harrow Weald. 

 V. Grreenford, abundant ; Melvill, 3. 



VI. Edmonton. Enfield. 



VII. [Near St. John's Wood Chapel, 1815 : Herb. G. # R.'\ Kentish Town ; 

 Herb. Hardw. Waste ground, St. Mark's, Chelsea ! ; iVewJ. 



* Curtie'e plate does not figure the characteristic achenia. 

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