Tas. 7813. 
ARME RIA  Latrrorta. 
Native of Portugal. 
Nat. Ord. PLrumBacinemx. Tribe Staticez. 
Genus Armenia, Willd.,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 626.) 
Armenia (Plagiobasis), latifolia; rhizomate crasso diviso reliquiis fuscis 
foliorum vetustorum dense operto, fuliis 3-5-pollicaribus anguste-oblan- 
ceolatis in petiolum angustatis acntis v. acuminatis glaucescentibus 3-7- 
nerviis, scapo elato glaberrimo, capitulo magno globoso, vagina longissima, 
involucri bracteis pallide brunneis scariosis dorso coriaceis infimis 
linearibus v. triangulari-lanceolatis acutatis, coeteris ovato-oblongis cuspi- 
datis, tubo calycis basi fere eequalis pedicello breviore obscure costato, 
costis pilosis, limbi aristis brevibus, petalis obovatis pallide roseis, stylis 
medio patentim pilosis.’ 
A. latifolia, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. vol.i. p. 334. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. xii. p. 684. Willk. & Lange Fl. Hispan. vol. ii. p. 365, 
A. Cephalotes, Link & Hoffm. Fl. Portug. p. 441.. 
A. scorzonerifolia, Link, in Schrad. Journ, vol. iii. (1810), p. 60. 
Statice Pseudo-Armeria, Murr. Syst. Veg. p. 319. Broteri Fl, Lusit. vol. i, 
p. 488. Jacq. Hort. Vindod. vol. i. t. 42. 
-§. Cephalotes, Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 684, 
8. lusitanica, Poir. Iter. vol. ii. p. 173. 
The genus Armeria is the subject of a very elaborate 
monograph by Boissier, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 
where upwards of fifty species are described, nearly one 
half of which (twenty-two) are founded by himself. 
Amongst these it is so difficult to distinguish what other 
botanists would regard as distinct species, that Bentham 
says of the genus in Gen. Plant., “ some authors enumerate 
more than fifty, others would reduce them to six or seven.” 
Respecting Boissier’s work in this genus, it is right that I 
should record that, with his wonted candour, he told me 
himself, he would, if he had the opportunity of revising 
it, reduce the species considerably ; and indeed in his 
“Flora Orientalis” he has reduced six of his Oriental 
species of Armeria to two. 
Turning to Willkomm and Lange’s “ Flora Hispanica,” 
Serremper Ist, 1893, 
