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to agree well with the description in Rouy & Foucaud's Fiore de 

 France of R. veptahundus Jord. (pro specie) = R.rejpens = Yar. subacaulis 

 Breb. = var. prostratus Gaud. I sent a plant home to grow, but it did 

 not flower until this year, though it has grown very freely, sending 

 out long prostrate rooting runners in all directions. The few specimens 

 sent were the only flowering ones of this year. In cultivation it retains 

 its prostrate habit and the characteristic form of its leaves The 

 difference between it and a plant of the type, growing as a weed near 

 it, was very striking. — W. A. Shoolbred. "I think this must come 

 under var. prostratus Gaud, which I take as the type {a) in my List, 

 although a somewhat less hairy and neater plant than our agrestal 

 repens.'' — G. C. Druce. "The effect of cultivation is very marked 

 when one compares these specimens with the original Dalwhinnie 

 examples distributed in 1911 {see Report p. 66), but the leaves are 

 still characteristic." — Ed. 



Ranunculus bulbosus L., fo7'ma. Sand dunes, Formby, South 

 Lanes., v.-c. 59, May 1913. Smaller and hairier than our inland 

 plant, but perhaps not separable as a dune form. — J. A. Wheldon. 

 " This is evidently closely related to the plant from the dunes of St 

 Ouen, Jersey, described by Mr G. Claridge Druce in Bot. Exch. Club 

 Report, 1910, p. 495, as R. bulbosus L., var. dunensis J^yucq, and, like 

 that, is, I think, to be regarded as a form of R. valdepubens Jord., 

 from which it appears to be distinguished only by the globular and 

 not depressed corm. Is the very abundant villosity of Mr Wheldon's 

 plant a device adapted for the purpose of withstanding the desiccation 

 of its habitat % A culture experiment would be useful. Jordan's R. 

 valdepube7Ls, it is interesting to recall, grew for years in his garden, 

 where it reproduced itself without any change in its character." — 

 C. E. Britton. " Not my dunensis, nor does it appear to come under 

 any of the five forms given by Rouy and Foucaud." — G. C. Druce. 



Ranunculus Flammula L., forma tenuifolius (Wallroth). [Ref. 

 No. 10210.] On gravelly margin of pond, Savernake Forest, Wilts., 

 Sept. 1913, coll. C. P. Hurst. Dr Hugo Gluck thinks it is only a 

 form, not a true variety. — Comm., G. C. Druce. 



Ranunculus Flammula L. Stony loch shore, 50 feet above sea 

 level, Loch of Kirbistry Orphir, Mainland, Orkney, June 30th, 1913. 

 — H. H. Johnston. "I suppose under var. tenuifolius Wallr., as one 

 of my specimens shows rootlets." — G. C. Druce. " This is the plant 

 usually called var. pseudo-reptans Syme, of which it is the narrowest 

 leaved form. Yar. tenuifolius Wallr. is an earlier name. See Report 

 1910, p. 538." — Ed. "I do not think my specimens come under the 

 var. pseudo-reptans Syme, because nearly all of them have decumbent 

 stems rooting at the base only, and in one or two specimens only did 

 the stem root at one node only." — H. H. Johnston, in litt. 



