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Taraxacum erythrospertmim, Andr., var. Iccvigatum (DC.). 
Hedge bank, Pickersleigh Road, near Malvern Link, Worcester- 
shire, v.-c. 37, May 1903. — Coll. Charles Waterfall.— Comm. 
R. F. lowNDROW, Malvern Link. The fruit on my plant is 
immature, but looks right, as does the foliage. Mr. Beeby con- 
sidered this species distinct from T. eryihrosperumm^ as did De 
Candolle. — Edward S. Marshall. But is it not T. obliqxmm^ 
Dahlst. ? — G. Claridge Druce. 
Taraxacum obliquum, Dahlst. Amongst blown sand, Ainsdale, 
South Lancashire, v.-c. 59, June 1909. This is the plant recorded 
in ‘hi. West Lancs.’ as T. lavigatum. It is abundant on the 
dunes of both South and West Lancashire. It keeps constantly 
distinct from the somewhat scarcer T. erythrospermum va its narrower 
outer phyllaries, much less dissected leaves, paler achenes, and time 
of flowering. — J. A. Wheldon. Achenes very pale; this is T 
IcBvigatum, DC., of which Jordan’s name is a later equivalent. — 
Edward S. Marshall. 
Taraxacum palustre^ DC. [ref. Nos. 309 and 310]. Port Holme, 
Huntingdon, v.-c. 31, May 10, 1910, and April 20, 1910. — Coll. 
E. W. Hunnybun. Comm. S. H. Bickham. There are two slightly 
different forms of this plant on Port Holme — one (310) flowering 
now (29, iv, 10), and the other (309) rather smaller, about ten 
days later. Mr. Beeby thought both were T. udu?n until I sent the 
fruit. — S. H. Bickham. This plant grows in a meadow which is 
flooded during the greater part of the late autumn, winter, and 
spring. I sent specimens to Mr. W. H. Beeby in the spring of 
1909. At that time I was sending him T. palustre from Wicken 
Fen, and he thought that the Port Holme plant must be T. udum 
chiefly because of its runcinate leaves. Being, as all botanists 
know, a very careful man, he put off giving any definite opinion 
until I could send fruit. When I did so, he said it must go to 
T. palustre, DC. He had impressed on me that speaking generally 
the leaves of Taraxaca are more or less entire or runcinate ac- 
cording as they grow amongst herbage or on bare ground. At that 
time, he did not know of any British exception to that rule except T. 
palustre and his subsp. Gierhildce of T. spectabile, Dahlst. The fruit 
of the Port Holme plant showed him that his rule applied to 
T. palustre also ; and in his last letter to me, when sending me 
plants of his subspecies, he told me he was convinced of this. 
1 have in my garden T. palustre from Wicken Fen. When growing 
there in the coarse grass, the leaves were nearly entire ; whereas the 
leaves are now runcinate, though not so much so as in the Port 
Holme plants, which grow practically on bare land during all the 
year except the months of May and June. — E. W. Hunnybun. 
These have the outer phyllaries more or less membranous-edged, 
