64 Proceedings. 
I have also brought down specimens to exhibit of the true 
Ranunculus reptans, L., which we gathered by Loch Leven on 
our way home from Kinlochewe. It was plentiful, and is really 
a very graceful little plant, arching over and rooting again 
perhaps half a dozen times or more. 
I have also, for comparison, brought down some specimens 
of a plant which sometimes gets mistaken for the real reptans ; 
but, as will be seen, it is a very coarse-looking plant beside the 
delicate thread-like growth of the true reptans, and besides, the 
hooked style of the latter further distinguishes it. This coarser 
plant is but a form of Ranunculus Flammula, L., called pseudo- 
reptans, Syme; but a specialist to whom we submitted the 
plants, gave his opinion that they were a step still nearer true 
reptans, and named them ‘a form between R. reptans and 
R. flammula v. pseudo-reptans,” and this kind of hair-splitting 
is certainly very puzzling ! 
A Report oF Excursions, 1897, 
was presented. 
April 24.—Betchworth, Rice Bridge, and Reigate Heath. 
67 species of plants were found in flower on this excursion, 
including Barbarea intermedia, Bor., which was plentiful in a 
field beyond Betchworth towards Leigh; it is uncommon in 
Surrey. 
Sedge-Warbler was heard and Swallow seen during the 
walk. 
June 12.—Boating on the Wey. 
23 members and friends enjoyed a cloudless day on the river 
between Guildford and Godalming. The banks were gorgeous 
with flowers, and the beautiful, damp, low-lying meadows afforded 
much delight to the botanists of the party. Sedges were 
abundant; Care paniculata, L., C. remota, L., C. acutiformis, 
Ebrh., and others, were observed. Stellaria palustris, Retz., 
occurred in some profusion near Godalming, and Vinca major, 
L., on the bank towards Guildford. 
