Mr. C. G. Babington on British species q/" PlumbaginacejE. 439 



point and a white or brownish membranous margin ; inner twice 

 or three times as long, white and membranous at the sides and 

 blunt or emarginate or split summit. Leaves blunt with a mucro 

 and wavy at the edges, or acute and mucronate and scarcely at 

 all wavy. 



Muddy salt marshes on the English coasts. Is it found in 

 Scotland or Ireland ? 



2. S. Bahusiensis (Fries) ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis mucronatis uni- 

 nerviis venis inconspicuis in petiolum decurrentibus, scapo sub- 

 angulato ramosissimo paniculate, spiculis 1-3-floris secundis di- 

 stantibus in spicas arrectas vel incurvatas laxe dispositis, calycis 

 limbo propter denticulos minutos inter lobos majores denticulatos 

 acutos sites subdecemlobe, bractea exteriori parva dorse herbaceo 

 subexcurrente. 



S. Bahusiensis, Fries, "Herb. Normale, iii. 18;" Summa, 200 ; De- 

 Cand. Prod. xii. 644. 



S. Limonium, 2. Bahusiensis, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. i. 10 ; 

 Mant. ii. 17 (excl. syn.). 



S. rariflora, Drej. FL Hafn. 121 ; Reich. Fl. exsic. 2200; Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2917. 



Scape nearly always branching from near its base, not at all 

 corymbose, and although much divided below, the ultimate sub- 

 divisions (or spikes) are long and simple. Spikelets often only 

 1-flowered, quite distinct, not imbricated. Outer bract broad, 

 cuspidate or acute, with a slight mucro and a white membranous 

 margin usually deeply tinged at its base with pink ; inner twice 

 as long, very blunt. Leaves usually blunt with a mucro from, 

 or from just beneath, the extremity, nearly even at the edges. 



Inhabiting less muddy places than S. Limonium, and found 

 throughout the United Kingdom. 



A few observations upon the name of this plant are necessary. 

 Boissier has adopted that employed here, owing probably to Fries's 

 observation in his ' Summa Plant. Scand.^ (200) : ^' e pi-ioritatis 

 lege hsec species S. Bahusiensis, sub quo nomine sex annos ante 

 Dreyerum descripsi et in H. N. distribui, dicenda est.^^ At a 

 first view this would seem most conclusive, but on a more careful 

 examination it appears that the name was given in the ' Mantissa 

 altera^ (anno 1839) to the plant as a species having been used 

 for the sake of distinction, but apparently not specifically, in the 

 ' Mant. prima' (1832). As unfortunately I am not in possession 

 of the ' Herb. Normale,' iii., I do not know if the plant was there 

 considered as a species or variety (although from the remark 

 already quoted probably as the former), nor the date of its pub- 

 lication. Drejer published his ' Flora Hafn.' in 1838, and has 

 therefore the priority if the second ' Mantissa ' is the origin of 

 the name S. Bahusiensis used specifically ; but if it was so used 



