536 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Thalictrum Kochii , Fr. Orig. Fortingal, Mid Perth. Hort. 
Bournemouth, September 1897. — E. F. Linton. “To determine a 
Thalictrum it is necessary to have the root, the lower leaves, the 
flowers, and the fruit ; your plant has neither of the three first-named 
parts. To judge from the fragment sent, I imagine that the plant is 
T. minus , L., a. virens, Koch, ‘ Syn.,’ ed. 3, p. 4.” — J. Freyn. 
Myosurus minimus, Linn., ‘ Sp. PI.,’ 284 (1753). Flinty fields, 
near Bucklebury, Berkshire, June 1893. — G. C. Druce. 
Ranunculus divaricatus , Schrank, ‘Baier. FI.,’ ii., 104 (1789). R. 
circinatus , Sibth., ‘FI. Oxon,’ 175 (1794). In the canal at Oxford, 
June 1893. — G. C. Druce. 
R. trichophyllus , Chaix. Ditch opposite Raglan Castle, Mon- 
mouthshire, 12th June 1897. Sent as a new county record for 35. — 
Charles Bailey. 
R. auricomus, L., forma. Near Barton Blount, Derby, 30th June 
1897. A stunted, thick-leaved form, growing on the grassy margin of 
a lane, perhaps due to situation. — W. R. Linton. “ In R. auricomus 
the petals are frequently more or less abortive. R. pseudopsis , Jordan, 
is a form of R. auricomus with more or less abortive petals, but the 
radical leaves are described as cordate -reniform and undivided.” — E. 
G. Baker. “ This is not pseudopsis , Jord.” — G. C. Druce. 
R. acris , L., var. Steveni (Andrz.). Sea coast, Melvich,West Suther- 
land, 15th September 1897. — W. A. Shoolbred. “This does not 
seem satisfactory for var. Steve?ii. R. Steveni was described by 
Andrzeiowski as a species in Besser’s ‘ Enumerat. PI. Volhyn,’ p. 22. 
The description begins : ‘ Radix subrepens, hybernaculis bulbosis, e 
quibus oriuntur caules 2 pedales, teretes,’ etc. The figure in 
Reichenbach’s ‘leones’ bears out this character of the root.” — E. G. 
Baker. “ This plant is very similar to a Ranunculus which I gathered 
in West Rossshire, which Dr. R. von Wettstein named R. tomophyllus, 
Jord.” — G. C. Druce. “ This is R. tomophyllus , Jord., ‘ Annal. Lyon.’ 
(i860) ex ipso in ‘Diagn. PL Nov.,’ pp. 71, 72, and is a form of R. acris, 
L., as I conceive the species.” — J. Freyn. 
Hellehorus viridis, Linn., var. occidentalis (Reuter, ‘ Cat. Graines,’ 
Geneve, 1868, as a species); Druce, in ‘Journ. Bot.’ (1890), 227. 
Near Basildon, Berkshire, May 1897. I have sent a few specimens, 
which have been verified by Prof. Victor Schiffner, in order to show 
that I am justified in considering our Berkshire plant to belong to 
this variety, which is probably the only form we have in Britain, since 
Mr. J. G. Baker tells me that all the specimens of H. viridis (including 
those from the Yorkshire dales) belong to occidentalis, and Mr. F. 
Arnold Lees also tells me all the Yorkshire plants are the same thing ; 
so that the statement made by Mr. Britten in his ‘ Review of the 
Berkshire Flora,’ “ that I identified, on evidence that cannot be 
considered as sufficient,” this variety of the hellebore as a British 
