REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1875. 
BY THE CURATOR. 
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Thalictrum minus, Linn., var. “ Cheddar Cliffs, Somerset, Septem- 
ber, 1875.” — J. G. Baker. I think it is T. minus, var. montanum , but 
hesitate between that name and Jlexuosum ; some of the fruits iu the 
separate paper resembling the one, and some the other. I should have 
been inclined to think that the long and comparatively slender fruits, 
like those of T. Jlexuosum, had not been matured when the plant was 
gathered, had it not been that I have an undoubted specimen of T. 
Jlexuosum from Cheddar Cliffs, collected by Air. T. B. Flower. It is, 
however, quite possible that both these forms of T. minus grow at 
Cheddar. I have sown some of the seeds from Air. Baker’s plant> 
which, if they germinate, will enable me to decide the matter. — J. 
T. Boswell. 
Thalictrum majus, Sm., flexuosum , Bab. Alan. “ Shore of Loch 
Tay, Mid Perth, July 14, 1874.” — Augustin- Ley. This is what I 
consider typical T. jlexuosum. I have had in cultivation from this 
station for some years a root sent by Air. Frederic Stratton. It runs 
at the root, and the fruit is about twice the length of that of T. 
maritimum and montanum. The young leaves of the Loch Tay plant 
break through the ground about a fortnight later than those of T. 
maritimum from Kirkcaldy and T. montanum from Derbyshire, and 
about the same time with those of T. ‘ saxatile ' from Cambridge- 
shire. — J. T. Boswell. 
Thalictrum Jlavum, Linn., “ a. splicer ocarpum.” “ River Learn at 
Offchurch, Warwickshire, June and August, 1873.” — H. Bromwich. 
All the fruits on the specimens sent are diseased, probably from a 
gall, so that it is impossible to say to which form of T. Jlavum this 
belongs. All the British Thalictra are liable to this deformity, but 
T. Jlexuosum seems the one most frequently attacked by the disease. — 
J. T. Boswell. 
Thalictrum Jlavum , Linn., a. splicer oc-arpum. “ Stapleford, South 
Wilts, by River AVylye, September, 1875.” — W. AIoyle Rogers. I 
should call this sphcerocarpuin.—^H . T. Boswell. 
