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SPECIES II.— ARMERIA PLANTAGINEA. Willd. 



Plate MCLIV. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLI. Figs. 1 & 2. 

 BlUut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 837. 



A. sabulosa, lord. Bor. Fl. de Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 537. 

 Statice plautaginea, All. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. cd. ii. p. G82. 



Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 3- to 5-ncrved, rarely 7-nerved. 

 Exterior bracts of the involucre mucronate or often aristatc or 

 foliaceous ; interior ones scarious, obtuse, usually slightly mucronate 

 from the nerve being excurrent. Calyx obliquely truncate at the 

 base; segments cuspidate-aristate. 



In sandy pastures and banks by the sea in Jersey, Avhere it grows 

 in St. Brelade's Bay, and on the Quenvais. 



Channel Islands. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



This is a stouter plant m all its parts than A. vulgaris, with tlie 

 leaves much firmer in texture, and in shape resembling those of Plan- 

 tago lanceolata. The leaves and stems are quite glabrous. The ochreate 

 bract at the apex of the scape is usually longer, and has the apex 

 less deeply laciniate. The exterior involucral bi-acts have commonly 

 longer points than in A. vulgaris, often considerably exceeding the 

 flower-head, and sometimes even foliaceous. The calyx has the awns 

 much longer. The pedicel is not half the length of the calyx tube. 

 The branches at the apex of the rootstock are shorter, so that the plant 

 grows in denser tufts, and below the leaves the bases of the decayed 

 leaves remain longer, so as to give the rootstock a scaly appearance. 



Plantain-leaved Thrift. 



French, Arm&rla afeiuUc.s dc iilantain. German, ivegerichhldttrige Grasnelke. 



HYBKTD (?)— AR M E R I A VU L G A R I-P L A N T AG I N E A.(P) 



Plate MCLV. 



Intermediate between A. vulgaris and A. plantaginea. From the 

 former it differs in groAving in a denser tuft; in the leaves being 

 firmer, broader, slightly enlarged towards the apex, and tapering to an 

 acute point ; in the stejns being longer and more rigid ; in the ochreate 

 bract being longer; in the involucral bracts being more distinctly cus- 

 pidate; in the pedicel being as short as in A. plantaginea, and in the 

 seo-mcnts of the calyx having much longer awns. From A. plautaginea 

 it differs in the leaves being less coriaceous, narrower, 1-nerved or 



