FLOWERING PLANTS. 43 
Ranunculus triphyllos, Wallr. 
Native (?). First record : Babington (?). 
This plant, which is now considered a variety of 2. heterophyllus, 
holds the rank of a species in the last (1881) edition of Babington’s 
Manual, where it is described as confined to Guernsey. In the 
Report of the Bot. Loc. Rec. Club for 1881 and 1882, &. tiphydlos 
is recorded as having been found in ditches near Coventry by Mr. 
J. E. Bagnall. I know nothing of the Guernsey plant. 
Ranunculus Baudotii, Godr. 
Native. First found: Groves, 1892. 
In considerable quantity in a marshy field a little to the north of 
Ivy Castle. JI am indebted to Mr. James Groves for pointing out 
this plant to me during the summer of 1892. 
(Ranunculus floribundus, Bab. has been recorded for Sark.) 
Ranunculus peltatus, Fries. Water Crowfoot. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
In several of the pools at Lancresse, mostly the var. ¢runcatus, 
Hiern. Specimens of this plant are preserved in Gosselin’s herbarium 
mixed with &. ¢trichophvllus. 
Ranunculus hederaceus, L. Loy-leaved Crowfoot. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Not common, though found in most parts of the island by 
springs and rivulets, and on the borders of small pools and ditches. 
A large form, mostly floating, with sub-entire leaves (var. omzophydlus, 
Ten.) grows in the ditches behind Ivy Castle. 
Ranunculus sceleratus, L. Celery-leaved Crowfoot. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. A few plants in a field on the Vale Road. More plentiful 
in the marshes north of Ivy Castle. A specimen in Gosselin’s 
herbarium is labelled ‘ Ditches in the Grande Mare,’ but the plant no 
longer grows there. 
The juice of this plant is so irritant that if applied to the skin it 
produces blisters which are difficult to heal, and are apt to pass into 
irritable ulcers. 
Ranunculus Flammula, L. Lesser Spearwort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common in wet and swampy places. A form with regularly 
serrate leaves (var. serratus, Breb.) occurs in the moat at Ivy Castle, 
and in several other places. The var. pseudo-reptans, Syme, 1S 
found in Saints Bay Valley, the meadows at Grande Mare, at St. 
Saviours, at the Vale, and is probably not uncommon, 
Known in Normandy by the name of Youve. The distilled water 
of this plant is said, on high medical authority, to be preferable to any 
other agent for producing instant vomiting in cases of poisoning. 
