THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1876. 
BY THE CURATOR. 
The Curator, before lie inserts any remarks in this Report on 
plants contributed to the Club for the distribution of last spring, 
has the pleasure of laying before the members some valuable notes 
on a few of the plants sent out in the previous year, kindly com- 
municated to him by Professor Babington, but received too late for 
insertion in the Rejport for the year 1875. 
Among the notes for the year 1876, he desires specially to call 
the attention of the members to the very interesting and valuable 
description of Hieracimn Dewari by Dr. Iloswell, read at a meeting 
of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, on December 13, 1877. 
In the labelling of specimens he would impress on members of 
the Club the great importance of inserting on each label the name 
of the collector, as such, of the attached sj)ecimen. In one or two 
cases he has reason to fear that specimens have been forwarded 
to him for distribution bearing the name of the contributor, not of 
the collector. It is indispensable that, in the case of a member 
forwarding plants not collected by himself, the name of the 
collector, as well as of the contributor , be given. 
The following are the notes from Professor Babington, referred 
to above ; — 
Ranunculus Godronii. From a small pond near Willesden, 
Middlesex, June, 1875. — T. B. Blow. Correct. Certainly not 
Drouetii with floatiug leaves. 
R. Drouetii. I very much doubt Blow’s plant from Plumstead 
being this. I suspect it is only a very loose form of trichopJnjllus. 
R. trichophijllus. Duthie’s seems to me more typical than 
Brotherston’s plant. [See B. E. C. Rep., 1875, p. 8. — Kd,] 
Speryularia neglecta — Lepiyonum salinmn. 
S. maryinata is, I believe, the Lepiyonnm marinum of Wahlenberg. 
S. rupestris=L. rupicola. I believe that the name rupestris 
cannot stand, as I have shown in the unfortimatelv-unfinished 
E. B. S., vol. V., fol. 2977. 
