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viridescent habit, broader and longer leaves, larger and numerous-flowered 

 spikelets, and the more or less distinctly leaf-like lowest glume. Possibly 

 a remarkable variety of S. fiuitans Linn. 



Taraxacum officinale Weber, var. £. lividum Koch, Syn. Fl. 

 Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 367 ; Herd. PI. Radd. III. 4, pp. 39, 43 ; A. 

 Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. I. 2, p. 440. 



Leontodon lividus Waldst. et Kitaib. ' PI. Ear. Hung. II. p. 120, tab. 

 115'; Willd. Sp. PI. III. p. 1545. 



Taraxacum palustre DC. Fl. Fr. IV. p. 45, et Prodr. VII. p. 148. 



Leontodon palustre Smith ' Fl. Brit. II. p. 823.' 



Leontodon Taraxacum /9. ixdustre Wimm. et Grab. ' Fl. Sil. II. p. 

 225.' 



Taraxacum officinale var. palustre Syme, Engl. Bot. ed. 3, V. p. 143, 

 tab. 804. 



Leaves glabrous or subglabrous, obovato-oblong, gradually long-attenuated 

 below, rounded-obtuse with a sharp tip at the apex, sharply and irregularly 

 subruncinato-dentate or repand-subdentate. Flower yellow. Scape thinly 

 tomentose under the head, exceeding the leaves, in fruit attaining about 

 5 decim. in height and glabrate. Involucre glabrous, nigrescent when 

 dried ; the external scales adpressed, ovate to ovato-lanceolate, acuminate 

 with an obtuse point; interior scales angustate, ecorniculate below the 

 apex. Achene obovato-linear, 5 mm. long, umber-isabel-coloured, squamoso- 

 muricate towards the apex. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-tampopo (nov.). 



Hcdj. Prov. Shinano : Shirouma (i)/. Orii ! Aug. 1902 ; Y. Yabe ! 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 26, 1902 ; K. Tanaha ! Aug. 1903 ; 

 A. Yasuda\ Aug. 1904). 



This variety is new to the Flora of Japan. 



Aruudinaria Tootsik (Sieb.) Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. 

 (1900) p. 62 (Jap.) ; Id. in Descr. d. Prod, forest, d. Jap. exp. a I'Exposit. 

 univ. d. 1900, p. 38 ; Matsura. Ind. PI. Jap. IL 1, p. 90. 



Bamhos Tootsik Sieb. Syn. PI. Oeconom. Jap. in Verb. Batav. Gen. 

 XIL (1830) p. 5. 



Pvhizome creeping. Culm attaining 5 m. in height and 3| cm. in 

 diametre, erect, terete, but semiterete and often flexuous above, fistulose, 



