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garden at Bayswater ; ' Don Dichlam. Plants, i. 37. This plant is said 

 to have had a reflexed calyx. Mr. Syme considers it ' probably only a 

 form of repens ' {E. B. i. 41). We have seen no specimens.] 



16. R. bulbosus, L. Bulbous Buttercup. 



E. pratensis rod. verticUli modo rotunda, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 88 ; iii. 374 ; Comp. 84. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 

 Rich meadows and pastures ; very common. P. May — June. 

 Though less common than the two last, this species is also generally dis- 

 tributed. 

 VII. The meadows round London abound with it. Hyde Park. Isle of 

 Dogs. Highbury. Kensington Gardens, 1868 ; Warren {v. s.). 

 First record : JbAwsow, 1632. With white flowers ; VII. Brompton Ceme- 

 tery, by the catacombs, 1859-63, J. Britten ; Phyt. N. S. vi. 692. 



17. S. birsutas, Curt. 



R. rectus, fol. pallidioribus hirsutis, J. B. (Merrett). Ran. annuus trilo- 



hatus lucidus (Doody). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 89 ; iii. 374 ; Comp. 84. Curt. F. L. f. 2 * 

 Waste land in damp places ; very rare. A. June — September. 



V. Acton Green !, 1867 ; Newh. 



VII. Below Hampstead, in the meadows betwixt the to^vn and the heath ; 

 Merrett, \Q2. [About Paddington ; Doorfy, 3fS5.] Field bet. Hamp- 

 stead and Kentish Town, E. H. Button ; Cooper Supp. 11. Chelsea 

 College, 1861 ; Britten. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666; also the earliest notice of the plant as 

 British. The Acton plant is R. parvulus, L., a small form of hirsutus. 



18. R. arvensis, L. Corn Crowfoot. Hedgehogs. 

 R. arv. echinatus, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 91 ; Comp. 85. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 

 Cornfields and waste ground ; common. A. June — August. 

 I. Cornfields, Harefield, frequent ; Blackst. Fasc. 84. Wood HaU, Pinner, 

 abundant. Harrow Weald Common. Near Elstree. Uxbridge ; Cole. 

 II. Near Staines, 1841 ; Herb. Young. A single plant, Staines, 1866. 

 Stan well Moor, 1867. 



III. Cornfields near Hounslow ; Hemsley. A few plants by the roadside 



near Heston. Isleworth ; Cole. 



IV. Stanmore, 1858; Pinner Drive; Melvill, 3. Fields by Hampstead 



Wood; Cooper, 101. Harrow Weald. 

 V. Greenford, abundant ; Melvill, 3. 



VI. Edmonton. Enfield. 



Vn. [Near St. John's Wood Chapel, 1815 ; Herb. G. # i?.] Kentish Town ; 

 Herb. Hardw. Waste groimd, St. Mark's, Chelsea ! ; Newb. 



* Curtis'B plute does not figure the chaTocteristic achenia. 

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