407 



'English Botany,' t. 2307, was drawn. I believe it is distinguishable 

 as a species from H. alpinum, but it is certainly more nearly allied to 

 it than to H. murorum. 



This is far from being the only one of the genus, even among our 

 comparatively few British species, that is, as yet, imperfectly under- 

 stood, although some of them have been much written about. I will 

 hope for additional light when we have Mr. Watson's further remarks 

 on those which he is cultivating. W. Borrer. 



Henfield, March 2, 1846. 



P.S. — I have one more error to correct in the list of mosses, p. 436 

 of the present volume. 



The supposed Bryum mnioides, from Helvellyn, is, as I thought it 

 at first, B. punctatum. The Malham plant is the true B. mnioides. 



W. B. 



Notes on the Ranunculus Lenormandi of Schultz. By Hewett C. 

 Watson, Esq., Mem. Imp. Acad. Cajs. Leop. Nat. Curios. 



In Mr. Babington's ' Manual of British Botany,' a variety of Ra- 

 nunculus hederaceus is mentioned, under the name of " grandiflorus," 

 distinguished by having petals " broad and much longer than the ca- 

 lyx ; " but no mention is made there respecting any peculiarity in 

 the leaves of that variety. 



In the ' London Catalogue of British Plants,' a variety of R. hede- 

 raceus is entered under the name of " partitus." That Catalogue not 

 being descriptive, of course only the name occurs ; which was sug- 

 gested by the plant having an intermediate form of leaf between the 

 ordinary R. hederaceus and the R. tripartitus of De Candolle. 



In the 'Annals' for last year (xvi. 141) we find an account of "Ra- 

 nunculus Lenormandi, F. IV. Schultz,''' which is there identified with 

 Mr. Babington's variety ' grandiflorus ; ' and the following description 

 is given of it : — " It differs from R. hederaceus by each lobe of its 

 leaves bearing two or three notches, its carpels obovate and tipped 

 with a terminal style, petals broader and longer, stipules very broad 

 and scarcely at all adnate to the petiole. It is a considerably larger 

 plant than R. hederaceus, and has probably been overlooked in Eng- 

 land, as either that species in a vigorous state, or perhaps as a state of 

 R. aquatilis, from which the want of capillary-divided leaves, and the 

 absence of setae on the receptacle, distinguish it." 



