CRITICAL STUDY OF RANUNCULUS AQUATILIS L. VAR. y 47 
more irritating mode of geographical citation is that so frequently 
used in the Fl. Orientalis, where the location of streams and ham- 
lets in “ Phrygia” or ‘‘ Cappadocia’ conveys no information. 
Var. 6. CABOMBOIDES. 
A weak, Tp straggling plant, with — flaccid pre oe et 
form leaves like those of Cabomba aquatica, known only from 
Tasmania, where it grows among pebbles at the bottom of streams 
in a matted mass. Stamens many, and longer than the carpels, 
which are also numerous. For details of distribution, see in the 
M 
s it from Seid in Herb. Mus. Brit., should, however, be refe 
ar. Rioniz, which they more resemble in facies than the 
pasha: p 
Syn.— AR. hyrocharis var. cabomboides Hiern. 
Vax 7. TERREST 
ompactus, RON Folia mecnieninye longiora, laciniis 
haud abbreviatis, carnosis fereque cylin 
Syn.—Ran ree aquatilis omnino saves J. Bauhin Hist. 
Plant. iii. 781, f. 2 (1651); R. Bawhini var. terrestris Tausch in 
Flora, xvii, 1. 526 (1834); R. Drouetit forma terrestris G.C. Druce, 
Fl. Berksh. 10 (1897). 
Mr. Druce :—“This state occurred in a deep ditch near 
Wytham in the dry summer of 1893. The upper leaves were 
succulent, but not more entire than is usual.” It is probably not 
uncommon, and to to state of the species may be refe’ 
specimens collected near Cong, in the county of Galway, in 1895 
(EZ. S. Marshall, n. 1440 in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
Having now summarized a differerit forms included in the 
species, it may be interesting here to give a translation of the 
original description of Tabern Siesta on which B#. divaricatus 
is founded :—*“ The third kind has a small thin and long root, like 
the first henge rere Se "with many fibres at the end 
which are like a fly-swish, and from the root grow many oui or 
bent sew stems, which from below upwards send out many 
small branches, furnished on all sides with many mays leaves like 
those of Fennel or Dill. Between the branches and stems grow 
pretty white flowers, one ore on a slender stalk, very like the 
flower of the water liverw When these fall off or wither, 
— are seen Sn bated heads like those of crowfoot, in 
e seeds are inclosed. This plant, like the others, grows in 
ry places and pools.” In the figure, which accompanies the 
all st ee 
as in &. t dager oo ore are longer than n the peduncles. In the 
much confus Schultz’s critical exsiccatz, n.404 and 
