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Ranunculus pseudo-fluitans Bab. In the River Ribble, near 

 Preston, South and West Lancashire, v.-c. 59 and 60, July 1914. 

 This is probably the plant recorded from about ten miles higher up 

 the river in the Flora of Stonyhurst as R. fluitans Lam., " not flower- 

 ing " (see Flora of West Lancashire, p. 129). During this last dry 

 summer flowers were freely produced near Preston, the river being 

 exceptionally low. — A. Wilson. " My specimen is too meagre for 

 determination ; fruit and floating leaves absent, and only one flower." 

 — E. S. Marshall. " From this specimen, 1 should have thought a 

 form of R. fluitans, but I should like to see more of it.'" — J. Groves. 

 " Cf. R. Bachii.'' — W. P. Hiern. " This appears to be identical with 

 the Batrachian Ranunculus sent to the Club in 1904 by the same 

 collector from the River Wharfe, W. Yorks, under the name of R. 

 pseudo-fluitans Hiern. The latter plant was considered by Messrs 

 Groves to be a small river form of tlie peltatus group. Examples of 

 both gatherings agree with descriptions of R. pseudo-fluitans except in 

 the characters of robustness and the average length of the peduncles, 

 and both curiously agree in the fact of being completely sterile ! If 

 this latter characteristic is not unusual, it would probably be as well 

 to publish a description of this form as a new species." — C. E. Britton. 



Ranunculus Baudotii Godr. 1 Brackish ditch inside sea wall be- 

 tween Sidlesham and Pagham, W. Sussex, v.-c. 13, June 15, 1914. — 

 J. E. Little. Baudotii'' — C. E. Britton, J. Groves, and W. P. 



Hiern. 



Ranunculus Baudotii Godr. Roose, v.-c. 69b, May 22, 1914. 

 Very plentiful in brackish water near the coast. — -W. H. Pearsall. 

 "A small form of this, I think."— E. S. Marshall. " Yes."— J. 

 Groves. " Cf. confususy — W. P. Hiern. 



Aquilegia vulgaris L. Marsh, Carbrooke Fen, v.-c. 28, May 19, 

 1914. — F.' Robinson. 



Papaver hyhridum L. Near High Down, Hitchin, Herts, v.-c. 20, 

 August 1, 1914. — J. E. Little. 



Corydalis lutea DC. Newquay, Cardiganshire, May 1914. — J. W. 

 White. 



Corydalis clavicidata DC. Clophill, Beds, v.-c, 30, April 25, 

 1914. Not recorded by Abbot {Flora Bedfordshire, 1798).— J. E. 

 Little. " Small specimens. It is a plant very responsive to con- 

 ditions of shade or exposure. The var. minor R. & F. Flore de France, 

 p. 188, from schistose soil, is only 4 to 12 cm. high. I have seen such 

 on recently burnt commons. I found it at Woburn in 1874." — G. C. 

 Druce. 



