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Ranunculus  peltatus  Schrank,  var.  truncatus  (Hiern). 
Shallow  Stream,  Saintfield,  Co.  Down,  June  30,  1909. 
This  is,  I  think,  correctly  named.  Some  years  ago  it  was 
gathered  from  the  same  place. — C.  H.  Waddell.  Yes ;  or 
very  near  it. — E.S.M.  Probably  correct.  The  fruit  is  not 
developed,  but  this  is  no  doubt  due  to  its  being  a  stream 
form  and  not  to  hybridity. — H.  &  J.G. 
R.  Flammula  L.  Gravelly  north  shore  of  Ullswater, 
Cumberland,  v.c.  70,  Aug.  31,  1909.  Quite  prostrate  and 
occasionally  rooting ;  growing  with  R.  reptans  L. — S.  H. 
Bickham.  Correct. — A.L.  A  rooting  state,  which  no 
doubt  is  covered  by  the  varietal  name  pseudo -reptans 
Syme  ;  it  is  nearer  to  the  normal  plant  than  the  radicans 
Nolte  of  Scottish  lake-shores.  The  specimens  received 
by  me  as  a  rule  root  freely. — E.S.M. 
R.  reptans  L.  Gravelly  north  shore  of  Ullswater, 
Cumberland,  v.c.  70,  Aug.  31,  1909. — S.  H.  Bickham. 
The  sheet  sent  me  exactly  matches  some  specimens  I 
gathered  in  1892  on  the  Ullswater  shore  as  reptans.  On 
sending  the  specimens  however  to  Mr.  C.  Bailey,  he 
reported  as  follows : — “  They  are  on  the  border  land 
between  pseudo -reptans  and  reptans  without  being  either 
exactly.  The  Scandinavian  reptans  and  the  Loch  Leven 
reptans  are  more  slender  than  your  specimens,  being 
distinctly  filiform.  I  have  found  a  few  Ullswater  plants 
which  I  cannot  distinguish  from  true  reptans ,  but  the 
gatherings  which  you  send  me  are  certainly  the  prevailing- 
form  there  with  all  intermediates  between  them  and 
coarse  decumbent  Flammula.  Mr.  J.  G.  Baker  relies  on 
the  hooked  style  as  the  best  character  for  reptans ,  but  I 
have  plenty  of  true  reptans  with  the  same  beak  as 
the  Ullswater  plant.”  Upon  seeing  the  true  reptans  at 
Loch  Leven  in  1896,  the  truth  of  Mr.  Bailey’s  interesting 
note  was  very  apparent.  It  seems  also  that  true  reptans 
has  a  differently  shaped  carpel  to  those  of  Flammula 
forms,  and  of  a  different  colour. — C.E.S.  (See  also  Kept. 
B.E.C.,  1909,  p.  434). 
R.  acris  L.,  var.  Friesianus  Rouy  &  Fouc.  Pasture, 
Compton  Greenfield,  W.  Glos.,  v.c.  34,  July  17,  1909. — Ida 
M.  Roper.  I  do  not  know  R.  Friesianus  Jord.,  which  is 
treated  as  a  sub-species  by  Rouy  and  Foucaud;  but  the 
