Conservation status: EN
First record: Ray, 1685 Last record: SM Walters, 1953
Lactuca sylvestris laciniata minima Martyn,1727,21.
[Lactuca sylvestris laciniata minima...] Small jagged wild Lettuce. Th.M.ann.Meth.21.
Lactuca saligna Least Lettuce. Banks of Ditches, and Pastures in chalky Soils. Relhan,1785.
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Lactuca sylvestris laciniata minima nondum descripta The least cut-leaved wild Lettuce. This was found on a bank and in a ditch by the side of a kind of drove or lane leading from London road to the river, just at the water near a quarter of a mile beyond the spittle-house end. Ray,1660,83(78).
Lactuca sylv. laciniata minima, N D A quarter of a mile beyond the Spittle, in a lane leading from London Road to the River in a Ditch, CC. Merrett,1667,68.
Chondrilla viscosa humilis C.B. Park. Ger. emac. Dwarf Gum-Succory. Haec illa est quam in Cat. Cant. sub titulo Lactucae sylvestris minimae dedimus, & tum nondum descriptam putavimus. On a bank and in a ditch, by the side of a small lane or drove, leading from London-road to Cambridge-river, just at the water or brook crossing the road, about one quarter of a mile from the Spittle-house-end. Ray,1670:71.
Lactuca sylvestris minima Cat.Cant. Chondrilla viscosa humilis C.B. Park. Ger.emac. The least wild Lettuce or Gum-succory. On a bank & in a ditch by ye side of a small lane or drove leading from London road to Cambridge river, just at a water brook crossing ye road about one quarter of a mile from ye spittle-house end. Ray,ann.1677,178.
[Lactuca sylv. laciniata minima nondum descripta] Haec planta exhibetur in Cat. Plant. Angl. sub titulo Chondrillae viscosae humilis C.B. Park. Ger.emac. Dwarf Gum-Succory. Ray,1685,23.
Lactuca sylvestris minima Cat. Cant. Chondrilla viscosa humilis C.B. Park. Ger. emac. The least wild Lettuce or dwarf-Gum-Succory. On a bank and in a Ditch by the side of a small lane or drove, leading from London Road to Cambridge River, just at a Water-brook crossing the Road about a
mile from the Spittle-house end. Ray,1690,41.Lactuca sylvestris minima... The least wild Lettuce or dwarf-Gum-Succory. On a bank and in a Ditch by the side of a small lane or Grove, [sic] leading from London Road to Cambridge River, just at a Water-brook crossing the Road about a quarter of a Mile from the Spittle-house end. Ray,1696,70; 1724,162.
Lactuca sylvestris, angusto, laciniato folio. The least wild Lettuce or Dwarf Gum Succory. On a bank and in a ditch by the side of a kind of drove or lane leading from London road to the river, just at the water, near a quarter of a mile beyond the Spittle-house end. R.Cat.Cant.83. Martyn,1732,2:54-55.
The Rev. Mr. Relhan has favoured us with this wild specimen of Lactuca saligna from the neighbourhood of Cambridge. It loves a calcareous soil, but is by no means frequent in any situation. The London botanists a very few years since used to find it about Pancreas. Dr Pulteney has remarked it, though rarely, in shady lanes in Dorsetshire. We know of no other places where it has been observed. Smith,Eng.Bot. (1800) 10:707.
Between the London road near Cambridge and Cow Fen; Ray. Bab.1860,141 & Bab.MS.Fl.448.
Figured in Eng. Bot. from a Cambridge specimen sent by Relhan in the year 1800. Eng. Bot. t.7071. Bab.1860,141.
Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, SH Bickham, 9.9.1901, CGE.
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Lactuca saligna Histon & near Clay-hithe Camb. Dreyer ann.Smith,1800:821.
Histon, about a Mile from the Town in the Road to Cottenham. On the Bank, a little Way below Clayhithe. Relhan,1802;1820.
About a mile from Histon on the way to Cottenham; Relhan. Bab.1860,141 & Bab.MS.Fl.448.
River bank a little below Clayhythe; Relhan, Bab.1860,141.
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On the high wash bank between Sutton Gault & Earith, 300 yards from Public House 'the Jolly Anglers', [Jolly Bankers] A Fryer, 8.1876, (2 sheets), CGE.
Banks of New Bedford from Sutton Chain
Witcham Gravel, abundant, AF.ann.Banks of New Bedford from Sutton Chain
Witcham Gravel, along 6 miles of bank in some years in great abundance. A Fryer, 18.9.1883, BM.By Jolly Bankers B.B, (subdistrict Washes) AF.cat. [Sutton]
Near Earith Bridge, EC Wallace, Rep. BEC,1934.
Between Earith bridge & Sutton, JE Lousley, 14.8.1938, RNG.
Earith [Cambs side of the river], TG Tutin, 8.1944, CGE.
Near Earith Bridge, TG Tutin, 17.8.1945, CGE.
Frequent on dykes about Earith, Cambs. 12.8.1949. DE Coombe, Card index.
Near Earith bridge, SM Walters, JE Raven, FH Perring, KM Goodway, 1953.
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Sutton Chain, New Bedford Bank, A Fryer, 18.9.1883, LIV.
Still occurs in Dist.7, at about twenty miles from any tidal waters. West,1898,253.
Abundant on the banks of the Catchwater from the sluice onwards in 1902, AF.ann.
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At Aldreth 150 yds N of big cross drain, also on hump of bank nearer hamlet. Mills ann.
Aldreth Causeway 10.8.1922. Mills ann.
Aldreth Causeway, near Aldreth, TG Tutin, c.1932; (Shown by Mills) abund. in 1944, TG Tutin.
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Banks of New Bedford from Sutton Chain
Witcham Gravel, along 6 miles of bank in some years in great abundance. A Fryer, 18.9.1883, BM.By 100ft Mepal, AF.cat.
Still found at Mepal. Evans,1911,231.
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Lactuca sylvestris costa spinosa Cut-leaved wild Lettuce. Ad agrorum margiones.(In field margins.) As by the way side from Ely to Cambridge, within a mile or two of Ely. Ray,1660,82-83(77).
Lactuca sylv.costa spinosaEly JM.ann.
Lactuca sylvestris costa spinosa Ely Th.M.ann.Meth.-Index Loc.6.
Lactuca scariola Prickly Lettuce. In the Isle of Ely. Relhan,1785;1802;1820.
Streatham, Hb CM Lemann, 22.7.1831, CGE.
Ely, JS Henslow, Hb CC Babington, 27.8.1833, CGE.
Ely Prof Henslow 29.8.1833, NTM.
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Roswell Pits, Ely, H Gilbert-Carter, 13.8.1924, CGE. BM.
Roswell Pits, F B[lades] 1924, Blades ann.
Near Roswell Pits, Ely, JE Lousley, 14.8.1938.
Gault Banks, Ely, Mr Casson, 8.1945, CGE.
