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. 
y> palustre. 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 Jong, 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. 
