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ee branching stems, anchored to the ground as described, 
and interlacing with the creeping and rooting stems of contiguous 
mass of roots, or a tuft of leaves, as in the filiform stems of reptans 
The plant, however, advances beyond Dr. Boswell’s definition Te ro 
ariay, in possessing arched internodes for all internodes after 
first, w latter is erect, but very short. It is the most extreme 
orm of sitiido- -reptans which I have met with. The exact locality of 
this form is a small bay about half a mile below Ferry, where 
the ts and Hawkshead —— leaves the shore of the lake. 
he English Lakes also furnish us with another icctennthen form 
of pseudo-reptans, which is so pee o true reptans that a careful 
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water with a profusion of R. rep at and a it numerous 
plants of Flammula with weak, nal filiform, par which, from 
its linear leaves and identical habit of growth, looked like reptans 
with somewhat larger flowers, stouter stems and roots, a longer 
branches, agreeing very well with plants collected b sites 
Beeb h on the stony margin esetter Lochs. 
This form is the var. radicans of Nolte (teste Dr. Joh. Lange). The 
specimens the Ullswater plants, w trate their 
transitional character. Bey this area =r was a thick 
e of typical suberectus, So that in a space of not more than 
four or five yards a most interesting piece of perio was being 
worked o 
An tat res question which arises is—Which of the two 
creeping forms here n oticed is the primary one? or are they 
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ead undergone evolution? The latter suggestion seems the 
ake bhely of the two. Temperature and other climatic agencies 
propoteni and in our pe ap ee we ‘may gue upon it as a relic of 
an arctic saveleticn, most of the members of which have disappeared 
from our flora, or only oceur at considerable northern elevations or 
latit The creeping habit t of the plant, with its power of 
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