Mr. C. C, Babington on British species 0/ Plumbagiuacese. 437 



Hortj of Trinity College, Cambridge, who gathered it on the Tors 

 near the sea at Ilfracombe, Devonshire, in July 1848, by whom 

 the specific name was suggested. 



5. A. plantaginea (Willd.) ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis 3-5-nerviis 

 margine anguste membranaceis, scapis glabris scabris, involucri 

 phyllis exterioribus triangularibus lanceolatisve cuspidatis in 

 alabastro juniori capitulum superantibus, reliquis ovatis obova- 

 tisque membranaceo-marginatis obtusis, pedicello vix tube calycis 

 dimidio sequante. 

 A. plantaginea, Willd. En. Berol. i. 334 ; DeCand. Prod. xii. 683 ; 

 Eng. Bot. Stippl. t. 2928. 



The broader leaves furnished with more than one nerve di- 

 stinguish this plant from our other species. It is remarkable 

 that Boissier describes the pedicel of this species as equalling 

 the calyx-tube, whereas I have never found it to equal the half 

 of that part in length, and that he combines with it the A. scor- 

 zonerifolia (Willd.), to which Koch awards a pedicel shorter than 

 half the calyx-tube. 



Our only station for this plant is the island of Jersey. 

 Having described all the supposed species which are known 

 to be natives of Britain, I proceed to make a few remarks upon 

 two specimens preserved in my herbarium which I am unable to 

 refer to either of the above, and do not feel myself justified in 

 naming even as probable new species. 



1. A plant gathered at Trewavas near Marazion in Cornwall, 

 in July 1839. 



This accords in most respects with A. pubescens, but has quite 

 glabrous scapes, ovate and scarcely acute outer bracts, and very 

 short petioles. Its heads also are remarkably small. Had not 

 so much stress been laid upon such differences as these by Bois- 

 sier and others who have a far more extended knowledge of the 

 genus than I possess, I should have unhesitatingly placed this as 

 a form of A. pubescens, and it is only a deference for high autho- 

 rities that even now prevents me from doing so. It exactly re- 

 sembles some of the smaller states of that plant. 



2. A plant found on the shores of the Gare Loch in Dumbar- 

 tonshire in Aug. 1838 by the Rev. Churchill Babington. 



This also agrees very closely with A. pubescens, and is probably 

 a variety of it. It difi"ers solely in having its spikelets shortly 

 but distinctly stalked within the involucre. This character is 

 employed to distinguish a subsection by Boissier, and is there- 

 fore doubtless deserving of attention. 



I may now remark, that of the above supposed species^, ma- 

 ritima and A. pubescens most closely resemble each other, their 

 outermost bracts difi'er slightly in form, and the latter has its calyx- 

 tube pilose only upon the prominent angles, the interstices being 



