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the rocks in Scratchells Bay, near the Needles ; Mr. E. Lees in New 

 Bot. Guide Suppl. May not this station belong to S. spathulata, as 

 S. Limonium does not usually grow on rocks or cliffs, which the for- 

 mer, I think, invariably does ? (see our third species). Var. @. 

 Flowers distant on the branches, see next species, and Ray's Syn. 

 Dillen. edit. p. 202. On the mainland the Sea Lavender abounds 

 about Portsmouth harbour, in Hayling Island, and wherever mud flats 

 are found. 



Statice rarifiora. In exactly the same places with the last species, 

 from which it is not separated by one constant and tangible character 

 that I can discover, and into which it may be seen passing so insensibly 

 as to preclude the possibility of fixing the limit between them. Side 

 of the Yar near Freshwater Mill ; sparingly. In muddy places about 

 Wootton Creek, intermixed with the ordinary S. Limonium, and 

 growing to a large size (two feet or upwards) ; Rev. G. E. Smith !!! 

 Shore at Cams ; the Salterns (near Fareham) ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt !!! 

 I have taken considerable pains to verify the characters laid down for 

 this and the foregoing species by careful comparison of living speci- 

 mens, and can come to no other conclusion than that already stated. 

 I find in well-marked S. Limonium the branches very often strongly 

 incurved, the calyx segments seem to me to differ little or nothing in 

 both, the toothing being very irregular, sometimes well-marked, at 

 other times nearly obsolete. Tt is true that in the sparse-flowered va- 

 riety of S. Limonium (S. rarifiora) the outer bracts are in general 

 larger than in the dense-flowered state of the plant, but even this I 

 found to fail occasionally, and if invariable, would be too slight a 

 character to found a species on by itself. Mr. H. C. Watson (Cybele 

 Brit. vol. ii. p. 307) remarks that plants of this supposed species from 

 the southern coast of England, and others from the West Lowland 

 province (S.W. of Scotland) " differ somewhat from each other;" Mr. 

 W. would find just the same difference in specimens from the same 

 locality on the Hampshire coast as he perceives in examples from 

 distant localities. 



spathulata ? On rocks and cliffs by the sea ; (never ?) on 



flat or muddy shores ; very rare, if not now extinct, in Hants. Isle of 

 Wight : given (but erroneously) on the authority of the Rev. G. E. 

 Smith in the 'New Botanist's Guide.' In two subsequent communi- 

 cations from my esteemed friend, he tells me he believes it was col- 

 lected on the cliffs near Freshwater by the Rev. Mr. Wood or the 

 Rev. R. Price. On rocks in Scratchell's Bay ? Mr. E. Lees (see S. Li- 

 monium). Now apparently destroyed on these ever-crumbling cliffs, 



