64 Rhodora [March 



lobes 5, deltoid-ovate, obtuse to subacute, 0.4 mm. long; intermediate 

 teeth suboval, entire, 0.1-0.2 mm. long. Petals pale. Plate 119, 

 fig. F. 



FLORIDA: without further data, Chapman (type in Gray Herb.). 



This new species, known only from a single specimen, is very dis- 

 tinct among eastern species in its combination of pilose calyx with 

 short obtusish calyx-lobes. Were it not for its minute flowering bract- 

 lets, much smaller than any seen in L. carolinianum, it might perhaps 

 be considered a hybrid of that species with L. Xashii. Further speci- 

 mens are much to be desired to determine the exact habitat of the 

 species and to test its status. 



8. LlMONIUM CALIFORNICUM (Boiss.) Heller. Plant 2^1 dm. high 

 and more. Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse or rounded to 

 retuae at the barely mueronulate apex, narrowed into the petiole, 

 coriaceous, veiny, fleshy, the blade 4.5-1(5.5 cm. long, 1.5-5.5 cm. wide, 

 on petioles 2-10 cm. long. Scape stoutish, solid, paniculately much 

 branched usually from below the middle to apex. Panicle 3.5-35 cm. 

 wide, subpyramidal, the branches strongly ascending, densely flowered 

 at their apices, forming spikes 1-3.7 cm. long; spikelets 1-2-nowered, 

 distichously arranged. Outermost bractlet elliptic, obtuse to acute, 

 mucronate or apiculate, hyaline-margined, 2-2.5 mm. long; middle 

 hyaline, with strong green midrib, subacute, 3.3 mm. long; innermost 

 elliptic, obtusish to acutish, rarely subapieulate, hyaline-margined, 

 4 nun. long. Calyx obconic, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, the ribs pubescent to 

 above the middle with short hairs ca. 0.2-0.3 mm. long; lobes del- 

 toid-ovate, acute or acutish, 0.5-0.7 mm. long; intermediate teeth 

 obsolescent or absent. Plate 119, fig. G. 



Statice californiea Boiss.! in A. DC. Prod. xii. 643 (1S4S). 



Statice Limonium L. var. californicum (Boiss.) Grav! in Brewer & 

 Watson, Bot. Calif, i. 4(H) (1876); Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1. 54 *(1878), in part. 



Limonium commune S. F. Gray var. californicum (Boiss.) Greene, 

 Man. San Francisco Bay Reg. 235 (1894). 



Limonium californicum (Boiss.) Heller, Cat. X. Am. PI. ed. 1. (i 

 (Mar. 1898); Small, Bull. Torr. Club xxv. 318 (June 1898), as to 

 name-bringing syn. only; Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 900 (1903), as to name 

 only. 



Statice Limonium Rattan! Calif. Fl. 72 (1879), not L. 



California: salt marshes, Humboldt Bay, June 1878, Rattan; 

 West Berkeley, June 1891, Michcncr & Bioletti 193; Oakland, 7 July 

 1881, Jane* 2367 (Brit. Mm.); salt marshes, Oakland, 11 Aug. 1891, 

 Blanhinship: salt marshes, San Francisco, Oct. 1837, Barclay 1577 

 (COTYPE coll.: Brit. Mus.); marshes, Palo Alto, 30 Aug. 1902, C. F. 

 Baker 1516; Santa Clara, Sinclair (cotype coll.: hb. Kew., tracing 

 and fragin. hb. Gray); salt marshes, Wilmington, Oct. 1882, Parish 

 Bros. 959; margins of bay, San Pedro, 6 Sept. 1904, Abrams 4184; 

 without definite locality, 1846, Fremont. 



9. Limonium limhatum Small. Plant 5 dm. high and more, 



