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cultivation produce leaves with broad leaf-segments. Some of my 
plants from the Scottish coast with broad segments both Kerner 
and Freyn named tomophyllus, Jord. — G. C. Druce. 
Rammculus acris, L., var. Rocks at head of Glen Eunach, alt. 
2,600 ft., E. Inverness, v.-c. 96. July, 1909 — Albert Wilson and 
J. A. Wheldon. This is too young to be certain about, but I 
believe it to be the same plant which Herr Freyn named R. Na- 
ihorstii^ Berlin, the No. 20 e of my ‘ List ’ (it is not the pumihis, 
Wahl.). Nathorstii has a wide range of variation, some large 
flowered forms from Lawers approaching R. stipaius, Jord., as was 
noticed by Herr Freyn, who remarked how much the specimens 
suggested the high-alpine stipatns, Jord. He believed N'atJwrstii 
to be the boreal form of W. vulgaius, Jord., and probably limited 
to Northern Britain. The very long curved beak of Nathorstii 
is a distinguishing feature. — G. C. Druce. Perhaps R. acris, var. 
Nathorstii, A. Berlin, the leaves being like those of plants from 
Ben Lawers and Ben Laiogh, but it is not unlike specimens of 
R. acris, var. stipatns, Jord., from Dauphiny, especially in the 
petioluled segments of the stem-leaf. — C. Bucknall. I have ex- 
actly the same thing from two neighbouring stations, viz., near 
the top of Cairntoul, at 4,000 feet, and on Braeriach, at fully 
3,500 feet; specimens of the latter gathering were shown by 
Mr. Schoolbred in 1899 to Mr. E. G. Baker, who inclined to 
place them under R. borealis, Trautvetter. The horizontal rhizome 
is that of R. Steveni, Andrz. — E. S. Marshall. 
Ranunculus acris, L., var. ? Rocks at head of Glen 
Eunach, Easterness, July, 1909. — J. A. Wheldon and A. Wilson. 
This may be R. acris, var. Nathorstii, A. Berlin, but it is not 
possible to say with certainty in the absence of fruit. In speci- 
mens so named from Ben Lawers and Ben Laiogh the carpels 
have long beaks generally spirally involute, the flowers are large, 
and the segments of the leaves are broader and less deeply divided. 
It may be, however, only a mountain form of var. rectus — sub. -var. 
puniilus, Rouy and Fouc. {R. parvulus, Clairv. non L.) — C. Buck- 
nall. 
Ranunculus Ficaria, L., forma. Weed in garden, Chepstow, 
Monmouth, v.-c. 35, April, 1909. This plant was noticed by several 
botanists as looking abnormal. It produces from the base long 
shoots with many leaves at some of the nodes which later on 
produce small tubers like the rootstock and sometimes a few root- 
lets. W. A. Shoolbred. Very different from the common form 
of poorer soils like the coal measures, where the Pilewort (as far 
as my experience goes) develops numerous nearly erect stems, much 
less branched, shows the characteristic leaf-bulbils very rarely, and 
