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the latter there were perhaps never more than one or two at a 
time. The same has applied to Wales, though after Mr. J. E. 
Griffith retired in 1921 the National Museum of Wales has 
sent small but useful contributions every year. 
Occasionally our Reports have comprised short but helpful 
papers, such as Mr. Pearsall’s “ Hints on collecting and 
mounting linear-leaved Aquatics,” 1921; Mr. Sherrin’s “Key 
to British Junci,” 1923 ; and Mr. Little’s translation of the 
Keys to the sub-species of the Erophila Section of the genus 
Draba, from Rouy and Foucaud’s and Clavaud’s works ; also 
his “ Spartina Toionsendi ” (both in 30th Report, 1915). 
Owing largely to the comparatively small circulation, one 
would hardly expect to find any new species first described 
in the Reports, though one or two species or varieties new to 
Britain may have been first recorded here. A passing 
reference may however be made to the considerable number of 
plants new to science or to the British Isles which our valued 
member Mr. H. W. Pugsley has described either in the Journal 
of Botany, the Journal of the Linnean Society, or the Journ. 
R. Hort. Soc. Specimens of several of these novelties have 
passed through the Club from time to time. 
From the very beginning of the Club to almost the end the 
large number of Clergymen and members of the Society of 
Friends is a not uninteresting feature. The well known 
longevity of these two classes of the community may partly 
account for the fact that there were not more than 226 
subscribers in the half century. Incidentally three of the four 
Secretaries were Quakers. 
H. S. THOMPSON. 
Ranunculus sphaerospermus Boiss. et Bl. [Ref. 1697], 
Basingstoke Canal, near Odiham, N. Hants, v.c. 12, May 20, 
1933. A. L. Still, Comm. E. C. Wallace. Yes. Many of the 
finest specimens in Britain have been collected in this canal. 
Since the publication of my paper in 1928 1 have examined 
those in Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew, where some exceptionally 
fine plants collected by L. A. M. Riley from the Basingstoke 
Canal in May, 1922, are to be seen. Nos. 173, 177 and 179.— 
W. H. Pearsall. 
Ranunculus acris L. var. toynophyllus (Jord.) ? Swampy 
meadow near Pensford, N. Somerset, May 13, 1933. H. S. 
Thompson. 
