Tab. 7596. 

 ARMERIA c^ispitosa. 



Native of 8pain. 



Nat Ord. Plumb agine.«. — Tribe Statice*. 

 Genus Armeria, Willd. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 626. 



Aemeria coespitosa ; radice multicipite, caulibus breviasimia in pulvinos den- 

 sissimcs confertis, foliis brevibus pateuti-recurvis inter se couformibus, 

 fere acicnlaribus basi dilatatis albo-mucronatia supra planis sabtua 

 obscure carinatis rigidia laste viridibus, marginibus scaberulis, scapo 

 brevi glabro v. puberulo, iuvolucri bracteis floribus brevioribua scariosis 

 brnnneis, extimis oblongis obtuaia concavis mucronatis 1-nerviis, 

 interioribus angustioribus acuminatis, bracteis floralibus late obovatis 

 obovato-oblongisve membranaceia hyalinis calyce longioribus multoties- 

 que latioribus, noribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis tnbo valide costato, 

 coetia intervallia angustioribus villosia in aristas scabridaa bracteolas 

 excedentes productis, foveolis basi calycis nisi rimis angustis inter 

 baseos costarum, calycis limbo hyalino truncato undulato, petalis 

 obcordatis pallide roseis, sty lis infi'a medium pilosis. 



A. caespitosa, Boiss.in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 679. 



A. jnniperifolia, Willd. ex Hoffm. & Link, Fl. Portug. p. 442. 



A. humilis, Link in Schrad. Joum. p. 61. 



Statice csespitoaa, Ortega in Quer, Fl. Espan. vol. vi. p. 334, t. 15, f. 1. Cav. 



1c. vol. i. p. 38 (non Poiret). 

 S. juniperifolia, Vahl. Symb.fasc. i. p. 25. 



Armeria caespitosa is a native of the lofty mountains of 

 Central Spain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and of the 

 Sierra de Estrella in Portugal. It was first described in 

 1762 by Ortega, in the " Klora Espanola," of Martinez 

 Quer, a remarkable work for its day. 



The plant here figured was raised from seeds received 

 at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1893, from the Botanic 

 Gardens of Madrid. It flowered in the end of April, 1897. 



Descr. — A densely tufted, dwarf perennial, with many 

 very short branches from the root, clothed with spreading 

 and recurved leaves, and bearing almost sessile heads of 

 pale rose-coloured flowers. Leaves one half to two-thirds 

 of an inch long, acicular from a dilated membranous base, 

 bright green, ending in a pungent white tip, upper surface 

 convex, under obtusely keeled, margins scabrid. Flowers 

 sub-sessile, in shortly peduncled involucres, forming heads 



May 1st, 1898. 



