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(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
ANUNCULUS LAcERUS Bell.—This last summer, Mons. Emile 
Burnat, of Vevey, Switsecland, who has been working at the Flora 
of the Maritime Alps for about twenty years, and who has already 
nepeten the Hieracia and Rose, jokingly said to me, when I told 
m that I was going to the Val Pesio, near Cuneo, for a few 
ini nths :—‘‘ You must look for Ranunculus lacerus Bell., a eu poo 
hybrid between R. pyreneus L. and R. seh ius.’ I did not 
know anything about this plant, but I had not been settled at the 
village inn of hee Bartolomeo more than ten days, when on w 
p M. mn, after passing masses of R. aconitifolius, and 
arriving at the slopes where R. pyreneus a at about 4500 ft., 
I ee two plants we ie apeae which I had never found before, 
an at once imagined might be the rarity in question. A 
week later, in the fai 4 days of June, at about the same elevation, in 
the Val Arpi, at the head of Val Pesio, near the same two common 
white Ranunculi, I found five or six other specimens, and when I 
gave these to M. Burnat he at once pronounced them to be the true 
R. lacerus of Bellardi. At the end of July I returned to the latter 
cality, and found, after bs! long vente one plant in fruit. 
carpels of this, as well as the pollen of the first- gathered 
llardi (App. ad flor. pedem. Act. Acad. Turin. 1790-91, p. 238) 
published a figure of his plant, which exactly agrees with mine ; ; 
one of the specimens in the Turin Herbarium gives the locality 
Mala Valanca, which not improbably is the valley now called Val 
Valanca dei Frati, a valley leading out of V. Pesio, between Monte 
oe and V. Arpi. The other specimens Be received 
a botanist named Viale, of Limone, who gathered them on the 
mca a above that town, that i is to say, at a short distance from 
V. Pesio. There are also examples, somewhat different in form, in 
e Herbarium DeCandolle, grown, I peop in the Botanic 
Garden of Grenoble; but a seems that since Bellardi’s date the 
e ? 
for it. Villars (Fi. a has a “ ne Re pyreneus var. foliis issia. 
gineis laceris furcatis Haller, Suter, and Reichenbach also 
