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228 NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 
it is sometimes better to judge of what  Linnzus intended by an 
8. ould be pro- 
DESCRIPTION oF Tas. 125. 
Figs. land 2. Ranunculus Cherophyllos, L., Auct., from a specimen collected at 
S. Aubin’s, Jersey, by Dr. M. M. Bull. 3. A young plantlet originally produced 
at the extremity of a stolon. 4. A sepal. 5. A petal. A stamen. 7. Ripe 
fruit. single achenium. (Figs. 7 and 8 from a French specimen. Figs. 6 
and 8 enlarged.) 
NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 
By C. C. Basineton, F.R.S. im 
Some specimens gathered by myself and also by Dr. D. Moore at Killarney 
are also probably P. polygonifolius. "There is yet another Irish a 
- Galway, which may be referred, although w1 
and Laestadius in the Kew Herbarium ; but I firmly believe that my spe 
cimen contained in Fries’s Herb, Normale (xiv. 75.) belongs to the same 
species as the Irish h 
pect an error concerning the peduncles, for Syme describes them 8$ 
" long, rather slender," they 
Fries states that his plant has * cauli 
to branch on his own speci 
being the same, may, therefore, pe 
On the whole, therefore, I cannot 
or Hooker (Student's FI., p.371), i 
natans, which, accordin 
