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REPORT FOR THE YEARS 1872-4. 
Ranunculus {acris) vulgatus, Jord. u Approaching R. Friesii in the 
breadth of the segments of the root leaves. Swanbister, Orkney, 1873. 
Of R. acris only two forms are as yet known to exist in Britain ; 
R. vulgatus, Jord., with a creeping horizontal or slightly inclined 
rootstock, and R. tomophgllus, Jord., with a nearly erect rootstock, and 
with leaves more finely cut than in R. vulgatus.” — J. Boswell Syme. 
Ranunculus trilobus, Desf. “ Kelso, Roxburgh, probably intro- 
duced: I have found it both by the riverside and in cultivated 
ground.”— A. Brotherston. “As this Mediterranean plant has no 
doubt been introduced with wool, and is little likely ever to become 
permanently established north of the Tweed, I should not have 
noticed it had it not been recorded in various publications as Ranun- 
culus arvensis, var. inermis, of which up to this time I have seen no 
British specimens.” — J. T. Boswell. 
Ranunculus Ficaria, Linn., var. “ Roadside between Crabtree and 
Ply mp ton St. Mary, Devon, April 6, 1872.”— T. R. Archer Briggs. 
“ An apetalous form new to me.” — J. T. Boswell. 
Helleborus viridis , L. “ This plant grows in open ground to the 
north-east of Arnside Tower, and is a mile distant from the station 
published in the previous report. In that station I have never known 
the plant to flower, but in the station now communicated it fruits.” — 
C. Bailey, Dec., 1874. 
Delphinium, Consolida, “ Linn.,” Reich. “ Penzance Green, Corn- 
wall, Aug. -Sept., 1872. About a dozen plants.” — R. Tucker, 
M.A. True D. Consolida of the Continental botanists, but doubtless 
a casual in Cornwall, as it has proved to be in Jersey, where no one 
has found it of late years. — J. T. Boswell. 
Actaa spicata, L. 11 Rocky wood on the limestone between 
Arneside Knot and Kendal, Westmoreland. Corroborative of the 
occurrence of this species in the Lake District, which rests upon the 
authority of T. J. Woodward, who was seldom wrong.” — F. Arnold 
Lees, 1872. 
