102 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLORA OF PORTLAND. 



herbaria having failed to reveal any specimen from the coasts 

 of France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, 

 Norway, or Sweden, similar to the Portland plant, and it being 

 clear that that plant was not Dodartii, Mr. Salmon found 

 that we have in Portland a species new to science, and this he 

 named Limonium recurvum. Under that name it now 

 appears as a full species in the last Edition of The London 

 Catalogue of British Plants (h). 



Limonium recurvum, as pointed out by Mr. Salmon, may 

 be distinguished from its near ally and neighbour, L. 

 binervosum, by its robust habit, stout scape, short branches, 

 and especially by its dense recurved spikes, (i) He has 

 found the characters constant under cultivation in his 

 garden, and remarks that even in the richer soil of his 

 rockery the branches remain short. 



It was reported in The Journal of Botany, Vol. 41, p. 68, some 

 time since, that the plant in Portland had been destroyed. I 

 am glad to say that this is not the fact ; it is, however, entitled 

 to all the protection that the members of the Club can 

 give it. 



I have referred above to the variable character of Limonium 

 binervosum, (Statice occidentalis, Lloyd}. Syme, Eng. Bot., 

 Ed. 3, VII., p. 164, gives as segregates of Statice occidentalis 

 (a) occidentalis, Lloyd ; e intermedia ; y Dodartii, Gir. 

 He distinguishes his var. intermedia from occidentalis proper 

 thus, " Scape branched from the middle or from above the 

 middle, rarely below it ; rarely a few of the lower branches 

 sterile ; spikes spreading or spreading-ascending, thick." 

 This variety has been reported from Portland, but Salmon 

 remarks (Journ. Bot. Vol. 41, p. 69) that the forms of 



(h) Dr. F. N. Williams, in his Prod. Flo. Brit., Vol. I., p. 437, 

 published last year, says, referring to Limonium, " In none of the recent 

 continental floras, which include species found in Britain, have Mr. 

 Salmon's views as to the delimitation of species and grouping of forms 

 been either modified or even seriously contested." 



(i) In Dodartii the spikes are never recurved, Gir. I.e. 



