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18 ·PLANT NOTES, ETC., :FOR 1926.
PLAI\:T NOTES, ETC, FOR 1926.
(Mostly New Plants to the British Isles or Notes on British· Species
inserted here for Convenience of Reference.)
ABBREVIATIONS.-t before a name signifies the plant is not native;
X = a hybrid; ± more or less; ! after a locality, that the Secretary has
seen the plant there; [ ] that the plant is not British or the record is
doubtful; A.nn. Bot. = Annals of Botany; Bot. Abstr. = Botanical
flbstracts; Gard. Chron. = Gardeners' Chronicle; 11'. Nat. = Irish
Naturalist; Journ. Bot. or J. of B. = Journal of Botany; Nat. = The
Naturalist.
9. ANEMONE NEMOROSA L., var. CAERULEA DC. Gard. Chron. i., 151,
1926. It occurs in Wales, not in woodlands but in vast numbers on
many a breezy, treeless. upland sheep-walk, especially, it would seem,
in the slate producing districts. Last year I came across some fields and
a railway-cutting which were literally blued by these pretty flowers. On
closer examination, however, I noted that here again there was a wide
variation in the colour-whites, then pinky lilacs, and both pale and
lavender blues. The blue ones flower a good deal later than the rest.
21. RANUNCULUS AURICOMUS L., var. INCISIFOLIUS Reichb. Calow,
Derbyshire. Lower leaves very deeply divided, upper leaves with broad,
coarsely and irregularly toothed segments. It may be worth mentioning
that the reniform lower leaves and narrow segments .of the upper
leaves of the common form may have a distinct downy coat (Southall,
Middlesex; Hasland, Derbyshire.) Hayward's Pocket Book, Ed. 17,
1922, states that the radical leaves are glabrous. E. DRABBLE.
22. R. BULBOSUS L. Finchley, Middlesex, May 1913. Flowers
apetalous but long stalked (unlike Mr St John Marriott's plants from
Dartford Heath, Rep. RE.C. 431, 1924); fruits fully formed; habit of
plant normal. E. DRABBLE.
24. R. FLAMMuLA L. It is worthy of notice that this species, like
R. Lingua, may have the leaves glabrous or hairy and this is true for
both the entire leaved and serrate leaved (var. serratus DC.) forms.
The amount of hairiness varies greatly, and different leaves on the same
plant may have glabrous or a hairy epidermis. I have plants with
quite glabrous leaves from 'Vingerworth, Derbyshire; Colne, Lancashire;
Mitcham Common and Ockham, Surrey; Sychnant Pass, Carnarvon-