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Plant 25-55 cm. high, more or less finely hairy. Leaves more 

 or less finely hairy (with occasionally stellate hairs) on both sides, 

 rarely almost glabrous, pinnately veined, broadly-or-oblong-obovate 

 or ovate, blunt or more acute, often emarginate, usually mucro- 

 nate, normally rather shortly petioled, showing white tubercles 

 when dry. Scape more or less finely hairy (with usually some 

 stellate hairs), rarely almost glabrous, erect, slightly flexuose, 

 branched usually from above the middle, sterile branches absent 

 or very few. Branches and hranclilets ascending or ascending- 

 patent and recurved. Scales triangular-acuminate, usually finely 

 hairy, never foliaceous. Spikes patent usually scorpioid, short 

 and rather dense-flowered, rarely longer and lax-flowered. Spike- 

 lets 1-2 flowered, sometimes with an additional abortive one. 

 Outer bract l|-lf mm. long, orbicular-or-triangular-ovate, apex 

 more or less acute, keeled with the keel projecting as an apiculus, 

 usually wholly membranous except for slight herbaceousness near 

 base, more or less finely hairy (rarely almost glabrous). Middle 

 bract lf-2 mm. long, irregularly oblong-ovate, apex truncate or 

 rounded, hyaline with veins, glabrous. Inner bract 2^-3J mm. 

 long, orbicular-ovate, with broad membranous margin which is 

 often, together with herbaceous portion, emarginate or jagged at 

 apex, more or less finely hairy (often velvety) over herbaceous 

 portion (rarely almost glabrous), usually a little less than twice 

 as long as outer bract. Bracteole 1 or absent, 2|-2f mm. long, 

 irregularly ovate, apex rounded, pointed or jagged, hyaline with 

 veins, glabrous (rarely with a few hairs). Calyx 3f-4J mm. long, 

 stout, densely hairy (or velvety) on veins and between same from 

 base to about 1 mm. from tip of lobes, or less hairy and then 

 chiefly on veins (rarely almost glabrous) ; calyx-lobes very short 

 (^ mm. or less) rounded-triangular or (rarely) more acute, short 

 sub-lobes usually present ; veins of calyx strong, not reaching to 

 base of calyx-lobes. Corolla with lobes emarginate. 



Differs from all forms of L. vulgare and L. Gmelinii by the 

 presence of minute hairs on scape, leaves, and bracts. 



Distribution. — European Eussia, S. E. (Gouvs. Saratoff ! and 

 Astrakhan !) Sarepta ! Siberia ! Russia, S. & S. W. (Nyman). 

 L. TOMENTELLUM O. Kuntze var. sareptanum. 



Statice Gmelini Reichb. ! Icon. Grit. Gent. 3, 37 (1825) ; non al. 



S. sareptana Becker! in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxi. I, 12 (1858). 



S. tomentella Boiss. subsp. S. sareptana B£ck. Nyman Gonspec. 

 Fl. Europ. 609 (1881); Gandoger, Nov. Gonspec. Fl. Europ. 

 396 (1910). 



S. intermedia Gzern. {fide Gandoger, I. c). 



Ico?i.— Reichb. Icon. Grit. 237 ! 



Exsicc.—F. Schultz, Herb. Norm. Nov. Ser. Gent. 13, 1211 ! 

 Becker, PL Wolg. infer. 42 ! 



(The description given below is contrasted with that of the 

 type ; characters common to both are omitted) : — 



Planta parum hispidula aut glabriuscula; folia tuberculis 

 albidis carentia, saepius emarginata; scapus saepissime infra 



