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Wet fields and roadsides ; rare. A. May — June. 

 IV. Pinner Drive, a single plant, F. W. Farrar ; Melvill, 2. 



V. Near an orchard close to Perivale Farm ; ices. 



VI. Field bet. Edmonton and a house thereby, called Pirns ; Ger. 346. 

 Edmonton, J. Woods ; B. G. 403. Bet. Edmonton and Enfield, 1819 ; 

 E. T. Bennett {v. s.). 

 VII. [Way from London to Hampstead, on a barren ditch bank ; Ger. 346. 

 In Chelsea meadow ; Merrett, 24. In a sloughy lane near the. Devil's 

 house going to Hornsey ; Pet. Midd. About Hornsey ; Blackst. 

 MSS. Near Marylebone Park and meadows behind KentishTown 

 Chapel ; Lane from Copenhagen house to Kentish Town, Dr. Wilmer ; 

 Blackst. Spec. bl. Kentish Town ; Dicks. Hort. Sic. About Islington, 

 Paddiugton, and Pancras ; Curt. F. L. Wet fields by the Harrow 

 Eoad, near where the G. W. E. Terminus now stands, 1825 abund- 

 antly ; Pamplin. Harrow Eoad, 1833 ; Herb. G. and R. (Ken Wood, 

 Hunter; Park Hampst. 29. y] 

 First record : Gerarde, lfl97 ; also first as a" British plant. Not met 

 with recently about London, though formerly common ; the plant at 

 Pinner Drive was probably brought from elsewhere, with soil used 

 in making the road. 



RANUNCULUS, Linn. 



5. ? R. Brouetili Schultz. 



Cyb. Br. Supp. 49, 77 ; Comp. 81. Syme E. B. i. t. 21. 



Ponds and ditches ; rather common ? P. April — June. 

 I. Pinner, W. M. H. ; Melvill, 2. Harefield ! ; JS'ewb. Euislip Moor. 

 V. Greenford (and ' i?. trichophyllus'), W. M. II.; Melvill, 2. Near 

 Shepherd's Bush Station ! ; ISewh. 



VI. Near Hadley ! ; Warren. Whetstone. 



VII. Green Lanes, Newington ! ; Kewh. New West End, Hampstead. 



First record : Hind, 1860. It is difficult to decide whether the Middlesex 

 plant should be referred to this or E. trichophyllus, Chaix, if, indeed, 

 it be referable to either. There seems, however, to be but one form 

 in the county. 



6. B. peltatus, Fries {Syme). Water Crowfoot. 



Ran. aquaticus hepaticm facie. Lob. (Johns.). R. aquaiilis, Ger. em, 



(Blackst.). R. aqnatilis, L. {in jiart.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 77 ; Comp. 81. 



o. R. jloribundus, Bab. E. B. S. 2969, reproduced in Syme E. B. i. t. IS. 



Ponds and still parts of streams ; very common. P. April — June. 



Tliis is the plant to which, till lately, the name R. aqitatilis was generally 

 applied by London botanists ; it is the commonest aquatic Eanunculus 

 in Middlesex. Professor Babington notices {E.B.S.loc. cit.) it as 

 ' common on the north side of Loudon.' 



