140 Botanical Notes. 



dc. and Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 47; but on examining that excel- 

 lent plate, it appears that the plant there given differed materially 

 from any plant which I have noticed in Britain. It has the' inner 

 involucral bracteae acute linear, the outer lax and lanceolate ; scape 

 with its upper half beset with spreading hairs ; the fruit with four 

 longitudinal furrows, and several transverse lines at its base, giving 

 that part a granulated appearance ; the upper quarter of its length 

 is covered with very strong spinose teeth, and it is suddenly con- 

 tracted into the beak. I cannot help thinking that this also is a 

 var. of T. dens-leonis. 



j. palusire. Leaves narrow, nearly entire, outer involucral, brac- 

 teae ovate, adpressed. 



L. palustre, Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 553. 



L. taraxacon, With. 1. c 



T. palustre, dc 1. c. 



L. taraxacum, III. palustre, Gaud. 1. c. 



Leaves long, narrow, nearly entire, or moderately toothed, not 

 runcinate, the teeth pointing downwards ; midrib reddish, very wide 

 in proportion to the leaf, striated, but in a less marked manner than 

 in either of the other varieties. Scape smooth, rather thick, oblique, 

 often bent, slightly woolly beneath the involucrum, but little longer 

 than the leaves. Involucrum with the internal row of bracteae lan- 

 ceolate, edged with white, rather blunt, the external ones broadly 

 ovate, acute, short, imbricated, erect, always adpressed, never re- 

 curved, except when the seed is quite ripe. 



A very different plant in appearance from either of the other va- 

 rieti es ; but there are so many intermediate forms that it must be 

 deprived of its rank as a species. 



• It is not uncommon in wet marshy places, such as the fens of 

 Cambridgeshire. 



Briza, n. s. ? — Spikes ovate, about seven-flowered; glumes shorter 

 than the paleae ; ligule lanceolate, very long, fixed by its back to 

 the leaf. 



This plant differs from B. media in the structure of its ligule, 

 which is exactly that of B. minor, i. e. very long, lanceolate, fixed 

 by its back to the leaf, and having its apex free.* It differs from 

 B. minor in having a creeping root, and the habit and flowers of B. 

 media. It is often more than a foot high, and flowers in August. 



Near Bath : gathered in 1833. This is the plant given in my Fl. 

 Bath as B. minor. If a new species, perhaps autumnalis might be 

 considered an appropriate name, as its allies are earlier flowering- 

 plants. 



