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EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 
FOR 1885 
Epirep sy James Grovzs, F.L.S. 
Ranunculus Flammula L., var. pseudo-reptans E. B. On the 
margin of the western shore a Windermere, near the Ferry, Lake 
Lancashire, July 25th, 1885. This plant grows in dense patches 
R. reptans L. which Mr. Bolton fe) 
years ago; it is very distant from the coarse sprversanet form of 
R. Flammula met pibiess in se poned bogs and Dr. <e 
by its being filiform and arched (Eng. Bot., ed. it ay VOL, 1; Seni 
Hitterdal Vand, in Southern Norway, and while the habit of the 
Windermere plan t was very similar in its mode of growth, the 
thick straight basal malesnories remove it from reptans. The Win 
dermere specimens now sent will show that the apical Sea 
are regularly arched, eer that all the apical nodes possess roots as 
true reptans, The plant at the date of collection was wholly 
Pa and I could not meet with any ripe CHARLES 
AILEY. 
Flammula L.—E. F. Linton, “This is quite different from Mr. 
on A 8 plant, and I should say not the var. pseudo-reptans.” 
R. ee Auct. Mr. Arthur Bennett sends cultivated 
specimens grown from a root received from Dr. Bull, from J ersey. 
They are especially useful, as the plant appears to be extinct in the 
‘Channel Islands.—J. G. 
Cerastium glaciale Gaud. Wet rocks, ef bas Ben Menhee W. 
Aberdeenshire, Aug. 22nd, 1885. I hav named it on Mr. 
Backhouse’s authority. le it C. alpinum yar. » Smithii of ke ? 
There was not much of the plant, so I have only given the locality 
as part of the Ben MeDhui group, W. Abe rdeenshire.—H. E. Fox. 
ae! think Hooker is correct, and that we have not the true latifolium 
itain. This I should therefore call alpinum var. It that 
Callitriche autumnalis L. In a pond formed by one of the 
a which carry the surplus watols of Lough Mack as Lough 
Corrib, at Cong, on _ boundary between counties of Galway and 
Mayo, Oct. 2nd, 1885. This is a rare Irish plant, from what I 
suppose to be the setiea published for District 8 in the ‘ poe as 
Hibernica,’ p. 264. The village of Cong is in County way 
