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C. pumilum. No specimen. 
Spergula arvensis. 8. vulgaris, Bngh. 
pecimen. 
unnamed specimen of a Thalictrum (vol. iv., no. 184) seems 
to be precisely the Hertfordshire plant from Royston Heath. This 
—from the compressed 10-ribbed achenes, not at all ovoid, but ‘ gib- 
stem (which is, however, compressible, at least when dry) leafy 
all but to the very base—is certainly, I believe, the 7. majus of the 
‘Student's Flora,’ and the 7’. flecuosum of the sixth edition of the 
13 : 
. . 
rin ee 
Jacquinianum, Koch. (Syn. ed. ii. p. 5 and 1015, 16), the descrip- 
tion of which applies in all particulars, while there seems to be 
Ww 
has usually been placed under 7’. minus, L., Sm. 4 
Ranunculus hirsutus. R. sardous, Crantz, Stirp. Austr. fase. ii. 
Pp. 84 (1763); R. hirsutus, Curt. Fl. Lond. f. ii. t. 40 (1778) t; 
ht. philonotis, Ehrh. Beitr. 1788, ii. 145. The identification of 
to the research of M. Aug. Gras (Bull. Bot, 1862, p. 824), and 
has been accepted by Grenier (Fl. de la Chaine Jurassique, 
p. 21), and Nyman in his ‘Conspectus.’ I subjoin Crautz 
original description :—“ Ranunculus sardous. R. foliis radicalibus 
apii_trilobis, fructu rotundo. R. palustris apii folio lanuginosus. 
- B. Pin. 180. 2. IL. species vel sardous. Cordi Hist. fol. 
119. R. se epit. 881. Icon. R. secundus. B. in 
Matthiol. fol. 458. Abundat tota Austria. Observatio I. | A 
rotundus, seminibus compressis, simpliciter apice acutis, in capi- 
tulum collectis visitur. Calyces lanuginosi, colorati, reflexi, flos 
parvus, gummeo nitore splendens, exiguo ungue maculatus. Obs. Il. 
Semina in plerisque ranuncalis apicem habent reflexum, semen in 
SiGe were ee ee 
*T look upon 7. saratile of the ‘ Manual’ as an altogether imaginary plant. 
f It has usually been held that Curtis commenced his great work in 1777, 
but in a MS, note of Pulteney's, in his copy of the first edition of the ‘ Flora 
first no. of the « Flora Londinensis ’ was published in May, 1775.” The date 1777 
in the title-page to the first volume is that of the completion of the first Fasci- 
culus. Stokes gives 1776 for the first publication. 
