THE GENOTYPICAL RESPONSE OF THE PLANT 
273 
are short and blunt in the majority of cases. It flowers early and has 
deep red flowers. 
b. The type of the northern part of the Swedish west coast. This 
type closely resembles the former. However, smooth scaped and hairy 
scaped individuals occur mixed. 
c. The type of the southern part of the Swedish west coast. Indi- 
viduals with smooth and hairy scapes occur mixed. They are taller 
than the preceding types, and have flat and broader leaves, resembling 
those of the inland and sandfield type. The length of the bracts is 
about the same as in the preceding types, but individuals with the 
bracts blunt shaped and short shaped occur in about the same propor- 
tions. This type flowers about two weeks later than the preceding 
types, and the flowers are rose-coloured or pink. 
d. The type of the interior and of the sandfields of the southern 
and eastern coasts. The scape of this type is quite smooth and taller 
than in any of the preceding types. The leaves are flat, and the ana- 
tomical structure of the leaf is very different from that of the types 
a and b, or almost isolateral (see fig 74d). The length and the shape 
of the bract vary; they are in most cases, however, longer and more 
pointed than in the preceding types. The hairiness of the calyx is 
confined to the ribs. The colour of the flowers and the time of 
flowering correspond with type c. 
e. The type of the cliffs and salt meadows of the eastern coast. 
Differs from the preceding mainly in regard to the bracts, which are 
shorter than the head, in the majority of the plants examined. The 
shape of the bracts is most often blunt-short. Hairy scaped indivi- . 
duals are found intermingled in a limited number with smooth scaped. 
— The type may be interpreted as an eastern representative of the 
west coast type c. 
A few words should be said of the treatment of Armeria vulgaris 
by systematists. The extreme forms of the west coast (with short, 
hairy scapes; blunt bracts) have been called A. maritima (Mill) Willd., 
while the smooth scaped, tall and long-bracted forms, especially 
typical of the inland, have been brought together under the specific 
name A. elongata (Hoffm.) Koch. The number of »transitional forms» 
found in certain localities led systematists back to the Linnean one- 
species-conception and called the plant Statice Armeria L. or Armeria 
vulgaris Willd. This course has in our country been followed by 
WınsLow (1879), who examined Armerias on the Swedish west coast 
and found the characteristics ascribed to A. maritima and A. elongata 
