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Taraxacum balticum ( Dalilst .) in Britain. 
stated that' he had found an interesting difference in the 
leaves and, suggested if I gave it a name that it should stand 
as P. cenisia All., var. arctica Br., forma scotica, and in 
November of that year wrote : ‘ very likely you would also 
find a character which would enable you to refer your plant 
with more confidence to either cenisia or pratensis (the latter 
of which I had suggested), or may be you could satisfy 
yourself that it ought to take much higher rank than a form 
of either.’ The name arctica seemed, however, as inapplicable 
as flexuosa, and all the gatherings except the 1896 (Xo. 2512), 
which Air. Fisher either lost or mislaid, were sent to Hackel, 
who, on 22nd March, 1899, wrote that he ‘ thought all the 
specimens must be referred to P. pratensis. var. humilis Ehrh., 
and the form identical with 2512 as a form which comes close 
to cenisia,’ and remarked, ‘ surely you are right in observing 
that what I called P. cenisia is not identical.’ These Prof. 
Lindman also determines as his Poa irrigata. 
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TARAXACUM BALTICUM DAHLST. IN BRITAIN. 
G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 
For several years — indeed, since the publication of Handel 
Alazzetti’s ‘ Monograph ’ of the genus — I have searched the 
East Coast of England from Canvey Isle, north to Skegness 
for this plant, which, as it occurs in Sweden, Denmark, 
A’orthern Germany, Russia, and Finland, might be expected 
on that side of Britain, but I have been unable to meet with 
anything I could refer to Dahlsted’s plant. In 1912, how- 
ever, I most unexpectedly came across it in my own county 
of Oxfordshire, at Menmarsh, where it grows in small quantity, 
over a very restricted area, in a marshy field which is often 
under water, forming as it does a portion of the fenny tract 
adjacent to Otmoor. Dahlsted has described a somewhat 
appalling number of species of Taraxacum, but this is one of 
the few which is admitted to that grade by Handel Mazzetti 
in his ‘ Monograph ’ (page 87). 
In our specimens, which Dahlsted says are a form of his 
balticum, the early leaves are very narrow and sub-simple, 
and recall those of Ranunculus Flammula rather than the 
Dandelion, while the phyllaries are broadly-ovate and 
appressed, and thus place it near T. paludosum. Dahlsted 
described it, I may say, in the ‘ Botaniska Notiser ’ for 1905. 
It may be added that the neighbourhood in which it grows 
also yields the very local variety of the .Dog Violet, var. 
lanceolata Mart.-Donos, and is the sole surviving habitat in 
the county for Salix repens 
Naturalist, 
