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Thalictrum majus Crantz. [Ref. No. 3774.] Rocky, alder- 

 shaded shore of Loch Tay, half-a-mile west of Fearnan Pier, v.-c. 88, 

 Mid Perth, July 28, 1913. In flower, and very young fruit; a few 

 more advanced fruits were collected on September 4. Three or four 

 feet high ; stems and petioles with some scattered hairs and glands ; 

 leaves large, vivid green above. Rev. E. F. Linton told me of this, 

 which he and his brother had found there, about eighteen or twenty 

 years ago ; and Dr Moss, to whom I showed it, pronounced it to be 

 "excellent majus (that is, of English authors)." I sent specimens 

 from the same place, as well as from one or two stations on the River 

 Lyon, both above and below Fortingal (where it is hardly so strong), 

 to Mr Arthur Bennett, who agreed that they came under T. majus, 

 but suggested that they were var. capillare, N. E. Brown, in Engl. 

 Bot. Supp. p. 4 (1892) = 7^. capillare Reichb. Is this more than a 

 shade-form % I believe the presence, or absence, of hairs and glands 

 to be of small importance, having found so much variation in in- 

 dividuals, otherwise practically identical. An unusually hairy and 

 glandular plant grows close to Fearnan Pier, in full exposure, and 

 much dwarfed, but it has similar (though smaller) leaves to the 

 present gathering, with the same fruit and long peduncles. Whether 

 our T. majus is the true plant of Crantz, I cannot say, but it seems 

 distinct from our other species. — E. S. Marshall. "Syme has said 

 that in T. majus Jacq. the lateral branches of the petiole leave the 

 main branch at right angles, and that he has seen true majus on the 

 banks of Loch Tay. Mr Marshall's plant looks rightly named." — 

 C, E. Salmon. Also from river shingle. Glen Lyon, near Fortingal, 

 Mid Perth. [Ref. No. 842.] July 11, 1913.— W. A. Shoolbred. 



Thalictrum % River bank shingle, by the Lyon, near 



Fortingal, Mid Perth. [Ref. No. 845.] July 8, 1913.— W. A. 

 Shoolbred. 



Thalictrum Kochii Fr. [Ref. No. 3767.] Stony banks of the 

 River Lyon, half-a-mile above Bridge of Lyon, near Fortingal, v.-c. 

 88, Mid Perth; flowering, July 11 ; fruiting, Sep. 5, 1913. These 

 specimens are from the station discovered many years ago by Messrs 

 Linton, where, as in several other places along this stream, it is 

 associated with T. majus, but is usually the more abundant species. 

 The leaves are more or less glaucous on the upper surface ; it has the 

 ovate fruit and hollow stem described by Fries in Mantissa III., p. 

 46. So far as I could ascertain, T. minus L. (montanum Wallr.) does 

 not occur in the neighbourhood. — E. S. Marshall. 



Ranunculus repens L., var. Origin, hill near Dalwhinnie, E. 

 Inverness, July 1911. Hort. Chepstow, June 1913. In July 1911 

 the Rev. E. S. Marshall and I gathered a distinct looking form of 

 R. repens on a hillside near Dalwhinnie in E. Inverness. It appeared 



