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S. crasstcladum W. var. magnifolium W. 12 Pentre Gove; 
f. versicolor W. subf. turgescens W. 14 Olelion Head ; var. diversi- 
folium W. 11 Lvonshall Park, 14 Black Mountains ; f. intermedium 
W. 14 Prill Dingle; subf. breviramosum W. 14 Moorland above 
Prill Dingle. 
S. rufescens Nees et Hornsch. var. magnifolium W. f. virescens 
W. 3 May Hill, H. H. K. and E. A. 12* Crowthers Pool, 14 Cefn 
Hill. 
S. turgidulum W. var. teret iuscuhim W. 2 Bisliopswood. 
S. papillosum Lindb. [In this group in FI. Heref. there is no 
mention of 'papillosum. The few records under cymbifolium and 
vars. are detailed below. The localities, when revisited, were found 
to contain forms mostly incorrectly named in the Flora. A. L. cymbi- 
folium 3 May Hill, il Vallets Wood, 14 Blaen Olchon, head of 
Cusop Valley, var. squarrosulum , 2 Howie Green, Lodge Grove, 
3 Haugb Wood, 11 Vallets Wood; var. comp actum, 11 Vallets 
Wood.] var. normale W. f. brachycladumW. subf. pal'descents Wheld. 
14 Olchon Head ; f. confertum W. subf. inundatum Wheld. 14 Black 
Hill; var. sublceve Limpr. f. glaucovirens Schlieph. 14 Black Hill ; 
f. breviramosum W. 12 Pentre Gove ; f. compactum W. 14 top of 
Black Mountains. 2100 ft. ; var. leve W. 14 Olchon Head. 
S. cymbifolium Ehrh. var. glancescens W. 3 Haugh Wood; 
f. squarrosulum Pers. subf. pycnocladum W. 2 Bishopswood, 11 
Lvonshall; var. pallescens W. 2 Bishopswood, 3 May Hill, H. H. I\. 
and E. A.; var. flavescens W r . 2 Bishopswood, 11 Lyonshall. 
We have voucher specimens of all these Sphagna in our herbaria. 
CALATHODES. 
By T. A. Sprague, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
The name CalatJiodes was given by Hooker and Thomson to a 
remarkable genus of Idanunculacece discovered by the former at an 
altitude of 10,000 ft. in the Sikkim Himalaya (FI. Ind. 40 ; FI. Brit. 
Ind. i. 22), which combined tlie approximate floral structure of 
Caltha with the foliage of Trollius. The generic name doubtless 
refers to the relationship with Caltha, and this connection has led to 
its being misprinted Calthodes (Graeco-Latin). The original and 
correct spelling was CalatJiodes —Hooker accepted the derivation of 
the Latin Caltha (common Marigold, Calendula officinalis L.) from 
m'iXadns (Student’s FI. 9; 1870), and presumably employed the 
adjective caXadihdrjs in the sense of “Caltha- like,” not “cup-like,” 
since the perianth-leaves of C. palmata appear to be spreading. 
The type-species, C. palmata, was subsequently discovered in 
Hupeh by Henry and W r ilson and figured in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1935. 
But Henry’s no. 6977, which was the type of that plate, was a 
mixture, the flowering specimen being C. palmata and the two 
fruiting ones representing a new species which I described as C. oxy- 
carpa (Kew Bull. 1919, 403). As the description and plate in the 
leones covered both species, it seems desirable to give their synonvmy. 
