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Sdb-Species I. — Statice Behen. Drcjer. 



Plates MCLVI. MCLVII. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Hclv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXL. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1052. 



S. Limonium, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 102. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. cd. v. p. 270. EooJc. & 



Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 351. Koch. Syu. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 684. 

 S. Limoniiim Scamiica, Fries, Mant. i., p. 10, and ii., p. 17. 



Leaves obovateoroblanceolate. Scapes branched in the upper half. 

 Spikelets 1- to 2-flowered, arranged in compact or rather compact 

 2-ranked unilateral spreading or recurved spikes. Innermost bracteole 

 twice as lon<i; as the mtermediate one. 



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Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MCLVI. 



S. Limonium, var. ft, Belicn. Boiss. in B.C. Prod. Vol. XII. p. G45. 

 S. Limouium, Grcn. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 739. 



S. Pseiido-limonium, Beieh. Fl. Germ. Escurs. p. 191. Beich. fil. Ic. Fl. Germ, et 

 Helv. Vol. XVII. p. 62. 



Panicle compact, subcoryniljose, nearly level-topped ; branches short, 

 stiff; spikes rather dense, elongate, at length usually recurved. 



Var. 0, pyramidalis. 



Plate MCLVII. 



S. serotina, Greii. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 740 (non Beich.'). 



S. Limouium, Beich. Fl. Gei'm. Excurs. p. 191. 



S. Limonium, var. a, genuina, Boiss. in B.C. Prod. Vol. XII. p. 644. 



Panicle very lax, pyramidal, the lateral branches widely spreading, 

 flexuous ; spikes short, rather lax. 



In muddy, salt marshes, by the shores of tidal rivers. Rather 

 common, and generally distributed on the coast of England. On the 

 east reaching north as far as Holy Island, near Berwick on Tweed, 

 on the west extending to the shores of Wigton, Kirkcudbright, and 

 Dumfries. Var. on the coasts of Kent, Sussex, and Dorset. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock thick, somewhat fleshy, black, branching at the apex, and 

 sometmies creeping for a short distance in the mud, the branches of 

 the rootstock producing rosettes of leaves at the apex. Leaves very 

 variable in size, 2 inches to 1 foot long, including the petiole; the pro- 

 portion of length to l)rcadth is very variable ; the apex is obtuse or 

 subacute, sometimes apiculate, at other times, even on the same plant, 



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