THE FLOWERS OF KOLGUEV 399 
side of the gullies among thick grass. I first saw it on our second 
landing on June 17 (on a bank on which the snow was still lying 
in patches), in company with Oxytropus and Myosotis. When in full 
bloom the heads form a most brilliant cluster, on account of the low 
growth of the plant. 
R. Pallasii Schlecht. Var. 8. mznor. Rupr. 
I have referred earlier to my first meeting with this plant on 
Kolguev. It presented characters so distinct from any Ranunculus I 
had before seen that I took the greatest possible interest in it. I 
brought down a quantity of it from the Pesanka and from the Swan 
Lake, and kept it alive by our Scharok waterhole till we came away. 
Eventually I sent the plants to the Botanical Gardens in Oxford. 
The petals (6 or 8), are white—not semi-transparent white as those 
of R. aguatilis, but white as Parnassia palustris. The sepals are 3 or 
rarely 4. 
The flower is very sweetly scented—a point which seems to have 
been quite omitted in previous descriptions. The plants I brought 
from Kolguev exactly agree with the description of Ruprecht’s 8. mtnor. 
It is smaller than the type, and the cauline leaves are all unlobed. 
This plant grew only in the wettest moss bogs, in which its stems rami- 
fied, rooting at the joints. 
Mr. Baker, to whom I am indebted for identification of this plant, 
has kindly supplied me with the following notes :— 
The type, as figured by Schlechtendal in his ‘ Animadversiones,’ is 
large and fistular, and with generally lobed leaves. JI have examined 
the specimens both at the Natural History Museum and at Kew, and 
find that this is apparently confined to the mainland. 
The following seem to be fairly typical— 
(a) Siberia Jenisei Nikandrovsky ostrov 70° 20’ N. lat. J. Sahlberg. 
(4) Lapp. Ross. Ponoi. J. Sahlberg and A. J. Malmberg, and also 
collected at the same locality by R. Enwald and C. A. Knabe. 
(¢) Eskimoland. Seemann. 
Ruprecht in his Sywbole plantarum Rossicarum, p. 18, records this 
from ‘Ad promeno. Barmin.’ 
