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On the occurrence of Ranunculus Lenormandi at Godalming. 

 By Henry Bull, Esq. 



The Ranunculus Lenormandi of Schultz, the R. hederaceus, &. 

 grandijlorus of Babington, or the R. hederaceus, (3. partitus of the 

 ' London Catalogue,' by whichsoever name it is hereafter to be distin- 

 guished, is much more plentiful in this neighbourhood than the typi- 

 cal form of R. hederaceus, occurring on the margins of ponds and in 

 ditches on the commons, and pending the inquiry, whether it is to 

 rank as a species or is to be considered as merely a variety of R. he- 

 deraceus, I should feel pleasure in supplying specimens, as far as 

 my stock will allow, to any reader of the 'Phytologist' who may think 

 it worth while to write for them, 



I do not observe, in any of the plants that I have examined, that 

 the leaves of R. Lenormandi are variegated with the markings of dark- 

 er green or brown, which are seen extending into each lobe of the 

 leaf in R. hederaceus. The different form of the carpels in the two 

 plants is very apparent, but the relatively more or less adnate state of 

 the stipules I do not find to be so distinct. 



Henry Bull. 



Godalming, Surrey, 

 April 16, 1846. 



On the occurrence of Primula elatior (J acq.), at Halstead, Essex. 

 By Thomas Bentall, Esq. 



T HAVE much pleasure in recording the occurrence of Primula ela- 

 tior (Jacq.J, at Halstead, having recently met with it in small quan- 

 tity in a damp meadow at this place. 



In this locality it is accompanied by a profiision of P. vulgaris, and 

 where the two plants are growing intermixed I have observed speci- 

 mens which I have no hesitation in pronouncing to be hybrids be- 

 tween them. The circumstance altogether has a little surprised me, 

 knowing that most of the stations where P. elatior occurs, are charac- 

 terized by the entire absence of P. vulgaris, and although the former 

 is frequently accompanied by P. veris, I have never seen or heard of 

 an example of hybridity between them. 



It is well known that P. vulgaris will form hybrids with P. veris 

 when they grow intermixed ; in fact, the peasantry in this part of the 



