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ill 2-rankecl subdistichous or more rarely subunilateral erect straight or 

 incurved spikes. Innermest bracteole half as long as the intermediate 

 one. 



In muddy salt marshes, growing with S. Belicn, but rather more 

 rare. On the west coast, extending as far north as St. Mary's Isle, 

 Kirkcudbright ; on the east coast it does not reach further than Cotharn 

 salt marshes in Yorkshire. In Ireland it appears to be sparingly 

 spread from one end of the island to the other. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



S. Bahusiensis approaches in some of its forms so closely to S. Behen 

 that it ought only to be considered as a subspecies. The ordiniuy 

 forms, however, ai'e strikingly different. The leaves ofS. Bahusiensis 

 are generally narrower, more pointed, and the mner ones are seldom 

 destitute of an elongate mucro ; the scape is often slightly angular, espe- 

 cially above, but tlie gi-eatest difference is m the arrangement of its 

 spikelets, which are remote instead of almost contiguous; sometimes 

 they are so distant that the apex of the inner bracteole reaches to the 

 base of the spikelets next above it on the opposite side of the rachis ; 

 at other times, however, it is only the apex of the short outermost 

 bracteole which reaches to the base of the next spikelet ; the inter- 

 mediate bracteole is a little longer than in S. Behen, and all the three 

 have commonly a broad belt of bright crimson surrounding the herba- 

 ceous portion, Avhich is seldom the case in S. Behen, and although it 

 occasionally occurs in that plant, I have never seen the tint so bright 

 as it is in S. Bahusiensis. The erect or incurved spikes give the plant 

 a very different habit, but this appears to be merely dependent on the 

 spikelets being distant, as whenever the spikelets are close together the 

 spikes show a tendency to spread. The calyx and corolla of the two 

 species are undistinguishable from each other. 



Bemote-flowered Sea Lavender. 



Section II.— GLOBULARIASTRUM. Gren. & Godr. 



Leaves 1-nerved or rib-veined, not pinnately veined. Scapes and 

 branches not winged. Axes of the spike not produced beyond the 

 flowers. Calyx slightly oblique at the base ; limb not awned. 



SPECIES II.— S T A T I C E B I N E R V O S A. O. E. Sm. 



■ Plates MCLIX. MCLX. 



Rootstock woody. Leaves shortly stalked, oblanceolate or obovate, 

 with an indistinct rib at the base on each side of the midrib, but 

 witli no lateral veins emanating from the midrib. Scapes paniculately 

 branched in the upper half or two-thirds, destitute or nearly destitute 



