CRITICAL STUDY OF RANUNCULUS AQUATILIS bL. VAR. y 21 
dale, in the county of Cornwall, lat. 42° (C. Stuart in herb. 
F. Mueller, et ex Bentham, Fi. Australiensis, i. 1863, p. 10)—var. 
cabomboides. I have not seen Fries’s Norwegian specimens; the 
most northerly examples I have examined being those collected by 
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some distance south of the Arctic Circle. This var. eradicatus is 
the “Ranunculus aquatilis” of Linneus’s Fl. Lapponica, but there 
is no specimen in Herb. Linn. 
In one of the most recent local floras, MM. L. & M. Gortani, 
still and slow-moving water. The second occurs in slow-moving 
é matus, is foun fe) , 
According to Grenier, Fl. de la Chaine Jurassique, 16 (1865), the 
present species grows in the ponds of the plain, but is not found 
in the mountains nor in the fir zone, where it is replaced by 
fi. trichophyllus. See also Rapin, Guide du Botaniste dans Vaud, 
ed. 2, p. 12, n. 3 (1862). 
Var. 1. communis: ut supra. 
n.—R. 3 
Centr. France, 43 (1877), not a species as given in Ind. Kewensis. 
Named by Lamotte after M. Martin, President of the Civil Tribunal 
of Romorantin, who studied the Batrachian Ranunculi and drew 
his attention to this large-flowered form. 
Hab.—France: Saint-Loup in the Department of Loir-et-Cher 
. Martin); Riom, in deep ditches along the railway, and near 
Clermont-Ferrand, in the Department of Puy-de-Déme (Lamotte) ; 
es Gazeriers, commune of Sussat, near Ebreuil, in Allier 
e). 
Var. 2. ERADICATUS. 
Pusillus, 2-3 dem., depauperatus. Folia 12-18 mm., con- 
fervoidea. Pedunculi 14-24 cm., filiformes. Alabastra non de- 
pressa. ores 7-8 mm. in diam. Petala calyci xquilonga. 
Stamina 5-10. Carpella 20-25, in statu juniore hispida demum 
par pats = primum olivino-atrescentia, demum brunnea; stylus 
reflexus. 
Geogr. limits.—W.—Claushavn, on the west coast of Green- 
land, as stated above (Berggren). | 
N.—At yig, in the amt of Finmarken, Aretic Norway, 
as stated above (7. F'ries). : 
