CURATOR’S REPORT FOR 1864. 
As in previous years, we propose to give here a brief 
notice of the more interesting plants that have come before us 
during the past year, restricting such notice, as will be seen, almost 
totally to plants of which specimens have passed through our hands, 
notable either on the score of critical interest, or as having been 
found in tracts whence they are not registered in the Cybele 
Britannica and its Supplement. 
Thalictrum flcxuosum Bernh. Mr. A. G. More sends from 
the banks of Lough Conn, county Mayo, specimens which agree 
with this plant as found in Ihe North of England. 
Ranunculus pseudo-fluitans Newbould. In the new edition 
of English Botany, Mr. Syme (who places it under R. peltatus along 
with R. floribundus Bab.) says of this, it is a “very remarkable plant, 
and may be a distinct subspecies, as the Bev. ~W. W. Newbould 
inclines to think. Professor Babington unites it with R. lieteropliyllus, 
with which it agrees in the weak collapsing leaves ; hut in other 
respects it approaches R. peltatus , or rather R. floribundus , and is 
very possibly only a state of that plant induced by growing in run- 
ning water. In habit it closely resembles R. fluitans, but has the 
segments of the leaves shorter, much less rigid, and less parallel, 
the stamens longer than the head of pistils, and the receptacle 
hispid.” Mr. A. G. More sends us a supply of specimens from the 
neighbourhood of Dublin, and writes, “ The plant seems as well 
marked by distinctive characters as any other of the British Batra- 
chian Ranunculi except fluitans , circinatus, tripartitus, hederaceus 
and cccnosus. To the general habit and appearance of R. fluitans it 
joins the floating leaves of R. peltatus. Its submerged leaves are 
long and very flaccid, whip-like, and much coarser than in any of 
the others, except fluitans. In the streams of Ireland it appears 
to be not unfrequent, and to take the place which R. fluitans 
occupies in England.” 
