4S2 Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 



bark. Leaves (| of an inch long, about 2 lines broad), glaucous, glabrous 

 on both sides, with a distinct middle rib, but no conspicuous veins, 

 linear lanceolate, inclining to spathulate on the branches, becoming 

 ovate and shorter towards the capitulum. Capitulum terminal, many- 

 flowered. Floicers white, longer than the floral leaves. Perianth sur- 

 rounded at its base with long erect hairs, tomentous on the outside, 

 striated, dilated over the germen, and diaphanous between the striso at 

 this part ; segments of the limb subequal, elliptical, with slightly invo- 

 lute edges. Stamens at first erect, afterwards reflected upon the limb, 

 and shorter than it ; anthers oblong, pollen bright orange. Germen 

 oblong, pale-green, glabrous ; style filiform, glabrous, longer than the 

 perianth ; stigma minute, capitate, bearded. 



This very distinct and very pretty species we received at the Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, from M, Makoy at Liege, in spring 1837. It 

 flowered very freely in March 1838. 



In the arrangement of the species it should be placed in the section in 

 which the floral leaves and those of the branches are subsimilar, and 

 should stand next to P. sylxestris. 



Statice puberula. 



S. puberula; foliis obovatis obtusis, planis, raucronatis, integerrimis, 

 longe petiolatis, utrinque stellato-pubescentibus ; pedunculo bi-alato, 

 sparse stellato-pubescente, dichotome corymboso, ramis ultimis erec- 

 tis, triquetris ; calycibus obtusis, crenatis. 



Statice puberula, Webb. — Bot, Reg. 1450. 



Description. — Stem short and branching. Leaves obovate, flat, with a 

 slender recurved mucro, a prominent middle rib, and a few obscure 

 veins, stellato-pubescent and glaucous on both sides, attenuated into a 

 long petiole. Fedunde erect, round at the base, above compressed, twice 

 or thrice dichotomously corymbose, branches with two wings, the 

 subdivisions near the top secund and erect, and t'he ultimate branches 

 3-quetrous. Bractece reddish, pubescent, sheathing, blunt. Calyx twice 

 as long as the bractese, blunt, crenate, purple. Corolla white, funnel- 

 shaped, claws long, laminoe obcordate. Stamens about as long as the 

 corolla. Styles yevy slender. Germen green, glabrous. 



This plant flowers freely in the greenhouse at the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, and is ornamental, both when the white corollas are expanded, 

 and after they have fallen, when the purple calyces remain as its only 

 ornament. Professor Lindley notices a resemblance between this and 

 S. furfuracea of Lagasca. I do not recollect to have seen S. pectinata. 

 Ait., but, judging from the description, I have a doubt whether it be 

 different from our plant, which, as well as it, is from one of the Canary 

 Islands. The figure in Bot. Reg. has far more acute leaves than the 

 plant ever acquired with us. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



1838, December 3. — Lord Gheenock, in the Chair. The 

 following communication was read : 



Discussion of one Year's Observations of Thermometers sunk 

 to different Depths in different localities in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Edinburgh. By Professor Forbes. 



These observations were made, at Professor Forbes's suggestion, 



