REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1871. 
By the Curator. 
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Ranunculus hetei'ophyllus, Bab. “ Pond in Balmuto Garden, Fife.” — J. 
Boswell Syme. This is the first time I have noticed this form in Scot- 
land. It was certainly not sown by me intentionally, and as I have not 
had mature carpels of the plant in my possession since I came to Scot- 
land, I cannot think that I have had anything to do with its appearance 
in the pond. Still it certainly was not there before 1871, and I have 
never observed it in the neighbourhood, where R. peltatus is the only 
form which occurs. This year it is not likely to put in an appearance; 
as, owing to the wet weather, the pond, which is really a dammed up 
stream, has been for months constantly traversed by a strong current of 
water several feet deep. This plant is, no doubt, R. radians, Bevel, of 
Mr. Hiern’s paper in ‘ Journal of Botany/ 1871, p. 99, as the leaves are 
rather thick and hairy beneath, and the carpels hispid. Specimens pre- 
cisely similar are sent by the Hon. J. L. Warren, from the Woking Canal, 
Surrey. 
R. tripartitus , De Candolle (?). “ During the past dozen years very few 
specimens of this plant have been obtained in the recorded localities 
about Esher, Surrey. In the early summer of 1871 it appeared rather 
plentifully in a spot to which collectors can readily be directed, — namely, 
in the small drainlets cut alongside the rifle practice ground near Esher. 
Mr. Hiern separates it from the tripartitus of De Candolle, chiefly by the 
absence of submerged leaves, naming it intermedins , Knaf in ‘ Flora.’ ” — 
II. C. Watson. Mr. Borrer, from the seeds of the British R. tripartitus, 
raised a plant with capillary submerged leaves, of which I possess speci- 
mens through the kindness of the Bev. W. W. Newbould, who received 
them from Mr. Borrer himself, with this information concerning their 
parentage. 
