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the differences are so slight as often to make it doubtful 

 whether the plant be a variation at all, or merely an imper- 

 fectly nourished and developed plant, that would otherwise 

 have been of the typical form, attempts have been made 

 to give it an independent specific position, under the title 

 of S. rariflora, or S. Bahusiensis. 



Two or three other species of Statice are found around 

 our shores, but as they are not by any means so common 

 as the species we have figured, we need do little else than 

 merely state the fact, leaving any of our readers who care 

 to do so to turn to the description of them in any British 

 flora, if they are so fortunate as to find a plant that is so 

 far like our illustration as to lead them to think it some 

 allied species. 



