I0I4- RlDDHLSDKij.. — Hclosciadium Moorci. 3 
specimen of Dr. Moore's in Herb. Babington, from Lough 
Erne, 1857 ' ^rst called Helosciadium repens ? and after- 
wards recognised as Syme's var. Moorci. This Lough Erne 
specimen is peculiar in having capillary segments to the 
lowest leaves. There is a yet earlier specimen at Kew, 
gathered at Ennis in 1804, by J. T. M[ackay], and forming 
part of Hooker's Herbarium. 
The Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1876, 
p. 20, gives (on a specimen of U. inundaUmi sent from 
Cheshire as " Moorei /"')]. T. Boswell's descriptive remark : 
" The var. Moorei has the leaf segments very much larger, 
resembling those of small H. nodiflorum or of H. repens.^"^ 
In the Botanical Exchange Club Report, 1881, p. 51, we 
find :— 
' ' Helosciadium ' Moorei ' — Among grass by the side of 
a little rill flowing into the Quoile river, Downpatrick, 
Ireland, June, 1880, S. A. Stewart. The Moorei w^hich I 
place under inundatum, C. C. Babington. This is not at all 
like my H. inundatmn var. Moorei. It is a luxuriant state 
of ochreatum, approaching the normal form of H. nodi- 
florum, J. T. BOSWELL." 
The Report for 1886, p. 153, says : — 
^^Helosciadium inundatum, Reichb., var. Moorei, Syme. 
Stagnant marsh, Downpatrick, Ireland, i6th September, 
1886, S. A. Stewart. This may be H. Moorei, which is a 
plant I do not well understand. It is not that of the 
Exchange Club, 1876, but much like other Irish specimens 
of Moorei, C. C. Babington." 
In the Report for 1897, p. 548, occurs : — 
Apium inundatum, Reichb. fil. By Renishaw Canal, 
Derby, 13th August, 1897. A dry land form, which occurred 
in one or two spots above the water level, W. R. Linton. — 
I am rather doubtful about this. Is it not A. nodiflorum, 
var. repens, E. G. Baker ? In all the mud forms of A . 
inundatum which I have seen there are leaflets showing 
transitions from the finely cut to the subentire ; these 
specimens do not show them. From the larger style and 
other characters I am inclined to refer this plant to a form 
of A. nodiflorum, but riper fruits are needed. In facies it 
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