120 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
within must be very Send papond our limits.” There is a poss: 
men from this locality in . Mus., collected by Dr. 
Crees, (not dated),.on the label ar which he notes: “in both 
counti 
ARTHUR BENNETT. 
[It may be worth while to add to the above the following 
records from Trimen’s interleaved copy of the Flora of Middlesex, 
now in Her us. Brit., an note for the benefit of future 
workers that this contains numerous additions both to localities 
and = biographical matter which was so interesting a aie of 
the w The order and nomenclature of the Flora is followed :— 
a L. I. Colne, Uxbridge. VII. Deickott's s Canal, 
Warren. 
P. perfolatus L. V. Thames at Kew, J. Smith in Herb. 
Mus. Brit 
P. crispus L. VY. “ Plentifully in ponds near Wellings Farm, 
Marylebourne,’ Herb. Banks. Pond by the fieldpath be- 
tween ‘the Plough’ and Ealing Church, June, 1876, Britten; 
small pond by the creek near Brompton Cemetery, about 
1860, Britten 
P. pusillus L. Vv. ee Isleworth Church, 1824: J. Smith 
: in Herb. Mus. t. (‘‘ = broad-leaved pusillus, often called 
compressus’’). “VIL. Bromley Marshes, 1844, EH. Palmer, 
Herb. S. P. Woodward. 
P. pectinatus L. VII. Duckett’s Canal, 1872, Warren. 
P.densus L. I. Uxbridge, abundant 
—. James BritTsn.] 
THE SCAPE OF TARAXACUM. 
By Wicui1am H. Bessy, F.L.S. 
THE curiously indiarubber-like texture of the scape in the 
he a um distinguishes it bse all other British land 
plan not ae to find that the peculiarity ex- 
hibited ro ‘ha bear should be connected with the Le eocvares 
of some special office. I have not, however, met with any de- 
scription of those movements which occur between the flowering 
and fruiting 
re ack maser so far as I have read, in recent descriptions of 
w species and subspecies, although they cannot be ignored if 
aithas the direction or relative length of the scape be made | use of 
ti 
while the scape of this form is quite prostrate in flower, it is 
