164 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



of sterUe branches. Spikelets 2- to 3-flowered, arranged in 2-ranked 

 unilateral erect or spreading straight or slightly incurved spikes. 

 Innermost bracteole rather more than twice as long as" the interminate 

 and outer ones, herbaceous on the back. Calyx segments broadly 

 ovate, rounded, without teeth between them. Plant glabrous, or with 

 the branches of the scape minutely papillose. 



Var. a, Occidentalis. 



Plate MCLIX. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXLII. Fig. 2. 

 Billoi, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2350. 



S. Occidentalis, Lloyd. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 281. Boiss. in B.G. Prod. Vol. 

 XII. p. 648. Bdch.fil. I.e. 62. 



Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute. 

 Scape branched often from below the middle; branches ascending, 

 generally solitary, the lower ones sometimes sterile. Spikes alternate 

 or in pairs, ascending or erect, rather slender. 



Var. 3, intermedia. 



S. Dodartii, Bal. in Man. Nat. Hist. ser. ii. Vol. III. p. 440. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. iv. 

 p. 270. 



Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse, or subacute. 

 Scape branched from the middle or from above the middle, rarely 

 below it; branches ascending, generally solitary, rarely a few of the 

 lower ones sterile. SpUces alternate or in pairs, spreading or spread- 

 ing-ascending, thick. 



(?) Var. 7, Dodartii. 

 Plate MCLX. 



Bekli. Ic. Fl. Gei-m. et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXLII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1054. 



S. Dodartii, air. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 180. Bulss. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XII. 

 p. 648. Ch-en. & Godr. Fl. da Fr. Vol. II. p. 742. (?) Belch, fil. 1. c. p. 63. 



Leaves obovate-spathulate, rounded at the apex. Scapes branched 

 only in the upper half ; branches short, spreading, often in pairs, none 

 of them sterile. Spikes often aggregated in threes at the extremity 

 of the branches, spreading, very thick. 



On rocks and cliffs, by the margins of brackish ditches, and in the 

 drier parts of salt marshes. Rather common in the south of England, 

 extending north to Lincolnshire on the east coast, and to Cumberland 

 and the Mull of Galloway on the west. Local, but distributed at 



