76 MR. G. C. DRUCE ON THE 
of Syme’s supposed hybrid in Babington’s Herbarium (which 
leaves have the peculiar shape of the type although smaller and 
somewhat narrower, differences perhaps caused by growing ina 
drier or more exposed situation). 
To conclude, one must now decide upon the names which 
should be given to our British species of Thrifts and Sea- 
Lavenders. For the first, in order to comply with the law of 
strict priority, I think we must choose Statice, for the second 
Limonium. Next we must decide upon the question as to 
whether we have two or three species of Thrift. It may well be 
urged that the characters already alluded to are not sufficient to 
warrant the specific separation of maritima and pubescens. In 
that case, we should have to make another section between the 
Pleurotriche and Holotriche to contain our British plant, which 
should be then called Statece maritima, Miller, with a var. pubes- 
cens and sub-vars. planifolia, duriuscula, and pubigera. For the 
present, however, I think it preferable to keep them as distinct 
species, putting one at the end of the Pleurotriche and the 
other at the beginning of the Holotrichw, as in the following 
arrangement :— 
STATICE, [Zourn. Inst. 341, t. 177, ex Linn. Syst. ed. 1 
(1735)] Hill, Brit. Herbal. 345 (1756). 
Pleurotricha. 
1. S. pranraginea, All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 90 (1789). 
Armeria plantaginea, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 
334. 
var. BUPLEUROIDES. 
Armeria bupleuroides, Gren. & Godr. Fl. Fr. ii. 
736. 
A, vulgari-plantaginea, Syme, Engl. Bot. ed. III. 
vii. 159, t. 1565. 
2. S. pupescens, Sm. ex Schult. Syst. vi. 772. 
Armeria pubescens, Link, in ‘ Repert. Nat. Cur. 
Berol.1. 180.’ A. maritima var. Linkii, Gren. 
& Godr. Fl. Fr. ii. 733. | 
var. PLANIFOLIA. 
Armeria vulgaris, Benth. var. planifolia, Syme, 
E. B. ed. III. vii. 158. 
var. (vel subvar.) DURIUSCULA. 
A, maritima, var. duriuscula, Bab. in Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. Ser. LI. iii. (1849) 436. 
