54 Rhodora [Makch 



barium, however, differs widely in its verrucose branches and other 

 characters from the plant of our southern coast, and the name Limo- 

 nium brasilicmc or Statice brasilicnsi.s should disappear from the North 

 American list. In the second edition of Britton & Brown's Illustrated 

 Flora the range of "L. carol inianwn" (not the plant of Walter) is 

 extended to include Bermuda, thereby implying its identity with 

 /,. Lefroyi (Hemsl.) Britton ' (Statice Lefroyi Hemsl.), which Wan- 

 gerin 2 had already suggested in 1911. The type of that species in the 

 Kew Herbarium, collected by Sir J. H. Lefroy at Walsingham, Ber- 

 muda, as well as other Bermudan material examined, represents a 

 different species with the lobes of the villous-ribbed calyx merely 

 short-deltoid, obtusish, and mucronulate, and our common plant of 

 the northeast is left unprovided with a name. 



In Boissier's monograph 3 of Statice ( = Limonium) in 1848 two 

 species were recognized from North America — S. caroliniana, a 

 mixture as to specimens of Limonium angustatum (Gray) Small, and 

 of the northeastern species with strongly pubescent calyx to which 

 Boissier's description exclusively applies; and the new S. calif ornica 

 from San Francisco (Barclay) and Santa Clara (Sinclair). In 1878, 

 in the Synoptical Flora, Gray also recognized two species — the 

 European S. Limonium L., represented in America by var. caroliniana 

 and var. californica, and 8. brasiliensis (= true S. caroliniana) with 

 the new var. angustata from Florida. In 1897 Small raised var. 

 angwtata to specific rank under Limonium, and described L. Nasliii 

 from Florida, and in the following year L. limbatum from Texas and 

 New Mexico, the latter said to be distinguished from L. californicum 

 among other features by the "calyx. . .tube hirsute" in opposition to 

 the " calyx ... tube glabrous" of L. californicum, despite Boissier's 

 description of S. californica as with the calyx-tube "ad 5 costas 

 breviter hirsuto." This error is repeated in Small's Flora, where 

 the species called /.. californicum is apparently the one here described 

 as L. mcxicanum. 



An important review of the Statice Limonium group has recently 



i Britton, Joiini. N. Y. Bot Gard. vi. 164 (1906). Sialic* Lefroyi Hemsl. Jonrn. Hot. xxi. 105 

 (1888); V..y. Challenger Hot. i. pi. 1. 47. t. 4 (1884). Tin- petals are tlescril>e<! by Hemsley as 

 shorter than the calyx-tube, but good material collected by F. S. Collins at the ty|M- locality 

 Uio. LMI) shows this to l>e an incorrect observation due probably to the over-maturity of 

 Hemsley's type. The petals are lavender and exceed the calyx by 1 -1 .5 mm. 



> Wnngerin, Zcitschr. Naturw. Halle lxxxii. 429 (1911). 



s Boiss. in \. DC. Prod. xii. f>34 et seq. (1848). 



