Excerpt from The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 6: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology; Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of the Botany and Zoology,' and of Loudon and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History;'
An examination of the species of the genus Leontodon L., contained in my herbarium, and a comparison of the specimens with the descriptions of authors, has led me to perceive that, with the single exception of Koch, the most esteemed authors have but very imperfectly distinguished the species of this genus, or determined the natural groups into which they are distributed. Koch's Synopsis, however, gives so complete and satisfactory an account of the forms belonging to the German and Swiss floras, that it might appear superfluous to attempt to add anything to his descriptions if they included a larger number of species, but in consequence of the region of his flora being so far limited, and of having myself observed and collected several species not included in his work, I am induced to propose the following arrangement of the forms known to me as the result of independent observation, in the hope that it may assist those botanists who, like myself, may have found the descriptions contained in other works incomplete and unsatisfactory.
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