PLate XXXITI. 
STATICE pusescens, DC. 
Natural Order Prumpaciven. 
Section of genus Statice having the middle and lower branches sterile. 
Gen. Cuar.—F lowers scattered. Calyx scarious, with a coloured 
nerve. Petals united at their base or sometimes free. Stamens in- 
serted at the base of the petals. Styles glabrous, free or united only 
at the base. ' ' 
Spec. Cuar.—Flowers on the uppermost branches; spikelets 1-2- 
flowered, straight; bracts pubescent, the outer about a quarter of the 
inner, scarious and orbicular, the inner scarious only at the edge, 
Oalyx straight, pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, of uniform texture, 
densely pubescent, spathulate, sometimes emarginate ; margins revolute. 
Scapes straight, slender, pubescent. 
Statice pubescens, DC. Fl. Fr. v. 380; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 
748 ; Woods, Tour. FI. p. 806. 
eg Rocks close to the sea, Cap Martin, ete. October. 
Remarks.—In the immediate neighbourhood of Mentone we have 
but three representatives of the Natural Order Plumbaginex, namely, 
Armeria plantaginea, Willd. (Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 334), Plumbago 
europea, Linn. (Sp. Plant. p. 215), and Statice pubescens, DC. The 
first of these grows at an elevation of not less than 3200 feet (Ardoino, 
Cat. des Pl. Vasc. de Menton, etc.), and the second on warm rocky and 
stony ground at a hundred feet or Jess above the sea.* The specimens 
figured were gathered at Cap Martin in the end of October, 1863. 
EXpLaNATION OF Pate XXXIII.—Fig. 1, calyx and bracts, with 
two joints of the branch. Fig. 2, the exterior bract. 
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* Statice pubescens, DC., ranges along the shores of Provenee, Alpes Maritimes, 
and Western Liguria (Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 306), and may be gathered on the rocks 
at Nice, and on the isle Sainte-Marguerite at Cannes. 
