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N. 56, Transcaspia, Askabad, April 24., 1898 (fr.). 
Area: South-Europe, South-Russia, Caucasus, Beludchistan to Hi- 
malaya. 
VII. Ranunculus L. 
12. R. paucistamineus Tausch, Flora XVII, 1814; R. aqua- 
tilis Aitchison, Journ. Linn. Soc. XIX p. 149, Afghan Deliminat. 
Commiss. 1888 p. 29; 0. & B. Fedtschenko, 1. c. p. 411; R. aqua- 
tilis 2, pantothrix, Ledeb., Fl. Ross. I p. 27; R. aquatilis, var. 
trichophyllus Hook. Fl. of British India I p. 16; Duthie, Plants coll. 
on the Pamirs; Batrachium paucistamineum Gelert, Studier over 
Slægten Batrachium, Kjøbenhavn, Botanisk Tidsskrift, XIX K 26; 
B: aquatile 2 submersus Komarow, 1. c. p. 53. 
Of this polymorphous species the following forms have been 
collected: f. divaricata (Schrank) Gelert, (N. 65, 1776), f. Drouetii 
(F. Schultz) Gelert (N. 1113, 1156, 1451) and f. eradicata (Lae- 
stad.) Gelert (N. 1445); the two latter are mountain forms of which 
f. eradicata is thinnest and smallest. The European form which 
has floating leaves (f. diversifolia (Schrank) Gelert) has not been 
found in Asia; all the authors (e. g. Hooker p. 16, Fedtschenko 
p. 411) write that they have never seen specimens from Asia with 
floating leaves. 
N. 65. Buchara, ga a pool, Bags 26., 1898 (fl. and fr.). 
N, 1776. Merv, in a pool, June 5., 1899 (fl. and fr.). 
va 813 ir gg" in the lake LARVE Kul, alt. 3800 m., August 15., 
1898 (fl. ae 
N. .. Pamir, in pools near the lake Bulung Kul, alt. 3800 m., 
August sg 1898 (fl. sad fr.) 
N. 1451. Pamir, Ishkashim, in a little stream near Nut, alt. 2700 
» October 3., 1898 (fl. and fr.). 
N. .… Pamir, Ishkashim, in a pool near Rang, alt. 2700, Oec- 
tober mp 1898 (fl. and fr.). 
ea: Common through the whole of Europe, North Africa, Siberia, 
ken Himalaya; the f. eradicata only in the Aretic and Alpine re- 
gions (Arctic Scandinavia, Finland, Siberia, Iceland, Greenland). 
18. R. natans C. A. Meyer in Ledeb., Fl. Alt., II p. 315; 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I p. 34; R. hyperboreus Rottb., var. natans Hook., 
