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be required, or make his bed in tie scanty though hosp’taoie 
accommodation of a Spanish monastery, Mr. Standen always saw 
the humorous side of the episode, oven if he were the victim of 
it. Such a spirit is infectious, and silences any grumbling at 
discomforts on the part of others. 
Besides his interest in botany and entomology, Mr. Standen 
was a very proficient painter in water colour, and exhibited for 
many years at the Dudley Gallery, where his pictures attracted 
a good deal of attention. He bad a very happy way of rendering 
the atmosphere of his subject in a convincing manner. 
I Mr. Standen did not pose as a critical botanist, but he was a 
keen observer, and he took great pains in preparing his specimens 
for the Club. Until nearly the end he would enter with almost 
boyish zest into any new discovery or the exploration of new 
surroundings. Such people never grow old, and in spite of his 
years I could never bring myself to regard him as an old man. 
Mr. Standen was a member of the Entomological Society, as 
well as of the Linnean Society. He leaves a widow, a son in the 
Indian Civil Service, and six daughters. 
WM. EDW. NICHOLSON. 

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I Clematis Vitalba L., var. ? Foreshore, Hayling Id., S. Hants., 
v.c. l.i, Aug. 19, 1916. — E. B. Bishop. C. Vitalba L., var. inter 
: grata DC.— C.E.S. 
Adonis annua L. Cornfield, Worth Mat ravers, Dorset, v.c. 9, 
June 29, 1916. — Ida M. Eoper. 
Ranunculus fluitans Lam., var. [Bachii (Wirtg.)]. In shallow 
water, Glencar Lough, Sligo, Aug. 20, 1913. — W. C. Barton. 
I 'Very near that, but I think that it agrees better still with an 
| luth^itic sheet of var. cambricus (Ar. Benn.) from Llyn Coron, 
Inglesey. In 1875 Syme referred Mr. Griffith’s original 
pecimens to var. Bachii.— E.S.M. Certainly not R cambricus 
br ; Benn. ! I should have named this li. pdtatus var. ps/cudo- 
luitans Newb. The receptacle is hispid.— A.B. Perhaps a form 
f R- fluitans, but not, .! should say, the var. Bachii. 1 have 
ever seen satisfactory R jluitans from reland, and notice feha 
hr. Praeger only records it from Co. Antrim. It would be inte- 
estmg to know whether Mr. Barton’s ':ant also occurs in the 
iver which runs out cf Glencar Loug' .. and if bo, what it U 
' ke. — J.G. 
