PLUMBAGINACEiE. 157 



Herbs with the leaves uU radical, linear, loratc or oblanccolate. 

 Scapes unbranched, leafless; flowers pink, purple, rose colour, or 

 white. 



The dorivatiou of the name of this plant is so uncertain and unsatisfactory that wc 

 can adopt none that are given. 



SPECIES I.-ARMERIA VULGARIS. Benth. 

 Plates MCLII. MCLIII. 



Leaves Imear, or linear-lorate or oblanceolate-linear, acute or obtuse, 

 ] -nerved, rarely 3-nerved. Exterior bracts of tlie involucre muci'onate 

 or acute, the interior ones scarious, obtuse, with the nerve vanishing 

 before the apex, or slightly niucronate from its l^eing excurrent. 

 Calyx obliquely truncate at the base ; segments shortly, cuspidate. 



Var. a, viaritima. 



Plate MCLII. 



Eelch. Ic. Fl. Gerui. et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXLVIII. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2521. 



A. maritima, Wllld. Enum. Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 333. 



Statice maritima. Bm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 226. 



Leaves narrow, always 1-nerved, channeled above, bluntly keeled 

 beneath, flaccid. 



Var. 3, plant folia. 



Plate MCLIII. 



A. vulgaris, var. pubescens ? Reich, fil. Vol. XVII. ]}. 07. 



Statice elongata, var. pubescens ? Koch, Syu. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 083. 



Leaves broadly linear, sometimes 3-nervcd, flat above, with the 

 midrib impressed, slightly convex beneath, Arm. Plant paler green 

 than in var. a. 



On rocks, pastures, and the drier part of salt marshes by the sea. 

 Also on rocks and damp places on mountains. Common and univer- 

 sally distributed. Var. 0, Scotch Highlands, Mr. H. C. Watson. 



England, Scotland; Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 



Rootstock branched at the apex, with several heads which pro- 

 duce dense rosettes of radical leaves, 1 to 6 inches long. Leaves 

 somewhat fleshy, variable in breadth, punctate above, and sprinkled 

 with pale unmei'sed points on both sides, except on the midrid, 

 glabrous or minutely ciliated. Scapes from the axils of the outer 

 leaves of the rosette, 2 inches to 1 foot high, puberulent or pubescent 



