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blit with a single prostrate stem, very rarely rooting at the 
lowest node. I suspect the form to be a common one in such 
situations, but this seemed to be an extreme one. It looks to 
me very like a prostrate E. scoticus Marshall, and it is a ques- 
tion whether both that and E. reptans are more than forms, or 
at best varieties of E. Flammula. — A. H. Wolley-Dod. Yes, 
this form is quite common in damp ‘ slacks ’ among the 
Lancs, and Cumberland sandhills. It is certainly not the 
elusive E. reptans L. of our northern lake shores. That 
is an extreme form possessing a slender filiform stem rooting 
at every node, much smaller flowers and carpels with a 
longer beak. Nor is it var. radicans Nolte, which is apparently 
only a smaller and much less robust form of Syme’s pseudo- 
reptans, but very distinct in appearance and commonly 
confused with E. reptans. The plant is best left under tenui- 
f alius Wallr. = normal pseudo-reptans Syme. The carpels 
are sub-globose to very broadly ovate, and possess a very short 
and obtuse beak. I have no hesitation in regarding all these 
‘ varieties,’ together with E. reptans and E. scoticus, as mere 
states, induced by their environment, of E. Flammula. 
C. E. Salmon was of the same opinion ; see FI. Surrey, 1931, 
96. — W. H. Pearsall. This is var. tenuifolius Wallr. ( = 
pseudo-reptans Syme ; non angustifolius Wallr. as in Druce’s 
“ List.”) It is identical with the Freshfield plant named 
E. Flammula f. minima by Ar. Bennett. I quite agree with 
Col. Wolley-Dod in regarding E. scoticus Marshall as a var. 
or form of Flammula. — E. Drabble. 
Eanunculus parvijlorus L. Very abundant in fallow fields 
near Southwell, Portland, Dorset, May 19, 1931. — E. C. 
Wallace. 
Eanunculus Ficaria L., var. incumbens F. Schultz. Moor 
Lane, East Clevedon, N. Somerset, April 16, 1931. — Ida M. 
Roper. Yes. — W. H. Pearsall. Yes, this is the so called 
“ variety ” incumbens F. Schultz. It does not appear, how- 
ever, to be of varietal rank ; it is quite inconstant and seems 
to show merely one extreme of leaf-form, of which “ var.” 
divergens (not decumbens as given in Camb. Brit. Flora) shows 
the other. — E. Drabble. 
Eranthis hy emails Salisb. Coppice between Langar and 
Bingham, Nottingham, Feb. 15, and March 20, 1931. A 
wonderful sight in the early spring, forming a thick gold and 
