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0:3 em. long. Disci floseulorum even * : em. long. Achenia 
(nondum matura) 0-15 cm., pappus 0 ong. 
Near C. erodioides DC. and. C. Searioaies DC., but differing 
from pb in the lobing of the leaves, the involucres, number of 
ligules, 
(To be continued.) 
CRITICAL STUDY or RANUNCULUS AQUATILIS L. var. y. 
By Freperic N. Wiuuiams, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 22.) 
Lusus ‘MACRANTHUS. —Petala calycem duplo superantia. Sta- 
mina 9- 
This is a ‘a large- flowered state, usually with more stamens. It 
is recorded from Switzerland, in the little mountain-lake above 
Zermatt called the Schwarz-see, at 2518 metres above sea-level 
‘(Buser) ; on the Dovre-fjeld, amt of Trondhjem, Northern Norway 
(Lindeberg); and in Swedish Lappland, at Stromds near Pited 
, ing the most robust and the reais 
Filo and 0g Savoie pelties A (“ lutulentus’ uf Renae ng an 
intermediate position. Songeon and Perrier sa ing in their 
description about the degree of hairiness in the Sa eis plant, nor 
ner mes it, but in authentic specimens it is quite evident. 
s FuRCATUS. — Pedunculi apice fureati. Petala calyce 
a eet Stamina 8-10. 
Hab. Ala-Tau Mountains, in Russian Turkestan. I have 
seen any other examples of R. divaricatus with this sicdae Ha 
Var. us Sas 
Folia 
bastra apie Pama Petala 4-5 mm. long. Stamina pistills 
breviora. Rep! ix minima Loti 1 mm. long., subglo 
Fl. de Fra 
r sieng XVii. "536 “ aB84) the earliest name, but not ess to 
the present variety, as the character of “natans” applies to all 
forms of the two tome: dealt with in this paper. 
Ha n, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Afghanistan 
(Grifith), and eter elsewhere. The specimens from North- 
west India ( fe or) referred to this Meet! by Mr. W. P. 
Hiern, seem o belong rather the common form of 
R. Bitariaitule ‘with paleo: ee iene like the plant from 
Hanle, in the Rupshu district of th e Ladakh province of mir, 
menti tioned in Hooker’s Fl. ss Ind. i. 16. In the locality near 
