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L. squalida (J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeel. i. 129) is known by its 

 silkiness, leaves lengthened into a narrow-oblong outline with re- 

 curved narrower segments, scapes longer than the leaves and pro- 

 bably also in some of its floral characters. 



L. minor (J. Hook. 1. c.) recedes again in leaves with tiarrower 

 outlines and segments, in glandulous flowers, of which the outer ones 

 are pedicellate and in less numerous scales of the involucre. 



L. dioica (J. Hook. 1. c.) differs in less deeply divided glandless 

 leaves, distinct male and female capitula. 



L. pusilla (J. Hook. 1. c.) in smaller and narrower leaves with 

 sometimes entire lobes, an involucre of very few and therefore almost 

 uniseriate scales, jind seemingly dioecious capitula with only about 

 6-8 male flowers. 



L. Hookeri (L. multifida, L. intricata, L. longipes, J. Hook, in 

 Lond. Joum. of Bot. vi. ] 17-118) is recognized by its comparative 

 smoothness, by leaves with fewer scantily toothed segments, an 

 involucre with very few biseriate scales of roundish form, capitula 

 with fewer flowers, distinctly glandular female corollse, which in form 

 however approach to those of L. potentillina. 



L. filicula (J. Hook. Flor. Tasm. i. 194), an alpine species, differs 

 in smaller leaves with fewer scantily toothed segments, short pe- 

 duncles, glandular corollse, fewer and oval involucre scales. 



One species from the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand, 

 apparently not recorded in Dr. Hooker's flora, and of which our 

 museum owes specimina to Mr. Travers senior and Dr. Haast, is 

 remarkable for the glandular and entirely black flowers, producing 

 a slender cylindrical distinctly toothed female corolla. 



Taraxacum officinale. 



Weber in Wiggers's Primitiso Florse Holsatiose, p. 56 (1780) ; Eocla, Syaops. 

 Flor. German, et Helvet. ii. 492; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel, i. 152; T. 

 dens leonia, Desfontain. Flor. Atlantic, ii. 228 (1800) ; CandoUe, Prodr. vii. 

 145 ; J. Hook. Flor. Antarct. ii. 223, tab. cxii. ; Leontodon Taraxacum, 

 L. Sp. Plant. 1122 ; Smitb, Flor. Britan. 823 ; Smith, English Flora, iii. 

 350 ; Leontodon palustre, Lyons, Fascic. Plant. Cantabr. 48. 



On open land of Chatham-Island. 



This plant is also immigrated into Australia and Tasmania, where 

 it gradually spreads onward. Dr. Milligan collected it on Flinders- 

 Island and on other of the isles of Bass-Straits. Dr. Haast has 

 brought this plant even from the glacier-regions of Middle-Island, 

 New Zealand. 



