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Curiously from the whole of Denmark T. paludosum is absent, 
being represented by T. balticum ; but at the same time there are 
many intermediates between paludosum and vulgare which are 
probably T. paludosum changing into Z! vulgare^ or vulgare reach- 
ing back to paludosum, but never attaining the final stage. 
That this is a more sensible method of looking at these inter- 
mediate forms, which the modern critical botanist is too apt to ignore, 
or to describe as hybrids, will, I think, commend itself to most field 
botanists. The description for instance of many of the intermediates 
of Euphrasias as hybrids is a case in point. For convenience I have 
given a place in the British ‘ Plant List ’ for these intermediate forms 
as a var. of T. paludosum. 
Taraxacum vulgare, Schrank = Leontodon vulgare, Lam., 
‘FI. Fr.’ ii. 113, 1778 ; of this he gives no varieties. The author, 
although living at Vienna, it will be seen ignores the so-called 
“ tot^geboren ” rule, which I have in vain searched for in the 
Vienna ‘ Actes.’ 
T. LAEViGATUM, DC. With this he makes synonymous 
T. erythrospermum, Bess. Capitula parva vel mediocria. Involucri 
fofiola ecorniculata vel plerumque corniculis mediocribus vel parvis 
instructa. Exterioris seriei foliola adpressa, patentia vel e basi 
patent! recurva interioribus latiora eorumque longitudinis tertiam 
vel dimidiam partem vix superantia .... margine membranaceo 
distinctissimo. Flores citrini. Achaenia parva intense rufopurpurea 
vel fere atropurpurea .... in cuspide anguste linearem longam 
.... abrupte contracta. 
50. T. OBLiQUUM, Dahlst. This is for the greater part the T. 
laevigatum, auct. angl., and differs from T. laevigatum , — capitula 
saepe majora et flores saepe lutei, T. vulgaris floribis vix pallidiores. 
Involucri foliola glaucescenti-pruinosa ; exteriora saepe lanceolata, 
Angustiora, sed interioribus semper latiora, florendi tempore saepe 
leviter arcuato-recurva Achaenia pallide griseo-brunnea, parva, in 
cuspidem saepe brevem (turn quintam totius fructus partem vix 
aequantem) abrupte contracta. Leontodon laevigatum, Fries, and 
Z. obliquus, Fries, ‘ Novit. FI. Suec.’ p. 13, 1814. 
Mazzetti has seen specimens from Sussex, Finsbury Park, and 
Carlingleugh Bay near Arbroath. 
We may expect two other species to be found in Britain, 
