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plant  or  animal  life,  ready  to  learn  or  to  impart  information, 
and  to  lighten  a  dull  trudge  home  with  interesting  topics, 
looking  at  both  sides  of  a  question  and  able  to  discuss  it 
with  unfailing  courtesy  and  good  temper.  Used  to  a  plain 
style  of  living,  with  no  self-indulgent  habits  and  little 
relaxation  but  what  botany  afforded,  he  could  dispense 
with  comfort  or  put  up  with  hardship  more  cheerfully 
than  most  men. 
This  is  not  the  place  to  say  much  of  his  professional 
work.  Augustin  Ley  was  (l.  c.)  “  in  many  ways  an  ideal 
priest  of  a  country  parish,”  said  one  of  his  clerical 
neighbours  at  a  meeting  in  Ross,  the  day  before  the 
funeral  in  Sellack  Churchyard ;  “  kindly  and  generous- 
“  hearted,  yet  withal  shrewd  and  practical,  he  was  one  of 
“  those  lovable  natures  which  attract  to  themselves  all  who 
“  come  in  contact  with  them.” 
E.  F.  LINTON. 
Ranunculus  FlammulaLi.  [var.  radicans  Nolte] .  Wet 
ditch,  Perran-ar-worthal,  W.  Cornwall,  v.c.  1,  Sept.  24, 
1910.  Most  of  the  plants  were  taller  than  I  am  accustomed 
to  find  this  var.  in  Cornwall,  and  there  were  no  roots  at 
the  nodes  of  the  stem.  This  may  have  been  owing  to  the 
dense  herbage  among  which  they  flourished.  A  few 
smaller  plants,  gathered  in  more  open  portions  of  the  ditch, 
were  prostrate  and  almost  all  the  nodes  showed  roots. — 
F.  H.  Davey.  I  think  this  should  not  be  placed  under  the 
variety,  but  left  under  type.  I  have  sometimes  seen 
plants  with  some  of  the  branches  which  extended  on  to 
the  bare  mud  or  shingle  quite  prostrate  and  rooting  at  the 
nodes,  while  the  rest  of  the  plant — being  in  the  long 
herbage  beside  the  ditch — was  ascending  or  upright, 
and  exhibiting  quite  different  leaf  characters,  making  it 
appear  that  the  mere  fact  of  the  plant  being  prostrate  and 
rooting  at  the  nodes  is  a  slender  character  to  base  a  var. 
upon. — McT.  C.  Nolte’s  plant  is  a  small  one,  growing  on 
stony  or  gravelly  northern  lake- shores ;  prostrate  (or 
nearly  so),  rooting  freely  at  the  nodes.  This  will  not  even 
do  for  Syme’s  var.  pseudo -reptans ,  which  seems  to  include 
larger,  coarser  states  ;  it  is  not  really  separable  from  the 
type,  as  it  has  erect  or  ascending  stems,  only  slightly 
rooting  near  their  base. — E.S.M. 
