CRITICAL STUDY OF RANUNOULUS AQUATILIS L. VAR. y 51 
_ Hab.—France: dunes of Barneville, in the Py, ontoteni of 
Manche (Corbiare, but not mentioned in his Nouv. Fl. Normand. of 
the following year ). A slender sea- eval form, Soiaah an may be 
looked for elsewher 
Forma poticHoropa.—Pedunculi post anthesin recurvi, valde 
elongati, usque ad 10 cm. Petala late obovata, haud mox caduca 
sed fere persistentia, venis 7-9 reursa. Receptaculum fructiferum 
sat hispidum, ovoideo-globosum, pilis circiter 35. 
yn.—h_ dolichopodus A. Kerner ap. Freyn in ere 
Ferdinand. Tirol. heft 35, p. 266 (1893); Fritsch, Sched. 
Austr. eh: viii. 26, n. 2908, cum tab. 
I have seen examples of this form from Reschner lake in the 
mountain- distriet of the northern part of Tirol (Zimmeter), from 
us 
iq. ; 
ee t from the river Wandle in Surrey (J. T. Moggridge, 1866, in 
bibl. Kew.). This pretty little piece labelled “ F. trichophyllus a 
pagal bate with Freyn’s figure, a form similar in facies to 
R. cire 
ise uTans.—Pedunculi foli uilongi, basin versus curvyati, 
sursum subrecti, — versus attenuati, fructiferi sub calyce 
reflexi. Flores nutantes 
ab.—Sicily; near the roe hunting- Bes, V4 of Ficuzza, in the 
province of Palermo (Todaro FI. Sicul. exs. 
Forma carnosa.—Planta pygmea. Folia ais pedunculo 
pet nar laciniis linearibus (non capillaribus) ea applanatis, 
apice tum aemecrs tum et sepius setulo destitu 
Syn.—Batrachium confervoides var. carnosa 7 ML Norman, FI. 
Arctic. scram span 
Hab.—Norway ; veral places in the amt of Finmarken, on 
the muddy banks a vivens and streams (the northern limit of the 
species, see above). 
Forma NANA ———s in Bull. Herb. me 1904, p. 1175.— 
Planta pygmea, foliorum laciniis haud carn 
ab.—Swi caaelasal: ; in the mud of Sot tine canton of 
Vaud, at Se metres above sea-level, in the district drained by 
the Sarin 
Var ~ TERRESTRIS Godron in Gren. et Godr. F1. de France, i. p. 24. 
—In locis exsiccatis extra aquam crescens, compactus diminutus 
i aey. rel dense foliosus seepius omnino glaber. Caulis 5-10 cm., 
magis rectus. Folia internodio non breviora, laciniis rete tis 
feroque ¢ cylindricis. Flores minimi, tantum 3 mm. in diam. 
a 5-10. Carpella demum semper glabra. 
Sya: —R:. Sebbltions Thuill. (1799). 
Hab.—Not uncommon in this and o' countries. On the 
muddy edge of a pond near Arborfield, in "Berkshire (G. C. 
1893) ; in a nearly Oo careous soil near Chorlton, in 
in : 
tioned in Mr. Bagnall’s Flora); Nairn (Rev. A. Ley); shingly 
shore of Lough Owel in West Meath (Rev. B.S. Mars rshall, 1895, 
