434 Mr. C.C. Babington on British species of Phumbaginacez. 
Armeria, Willd. 
Sec. 2. Puacropasis. § 1. Hoxtotricua, Boiss. 
Tubus calycinus totus et ad costas et ad costarum intervalla pilosus. 
1. A. maritima (Willd.) ; folits linearibus obtusiusculis uninerviis 
planis glabris vel parce ciliatulis, scapis villosulis, involucri phyllis 
latis obtusisque, dorso late herbaceis exterioribus dorso excurrente 
acutiusculis, reliquis late scarioso-marginatis muticis, pedicello 
calycinum tubum equante. 
A. maritima, Willd. En. Berol. i. 3833; DeCand. Prod. xii. 677. 
The leaves of this plant are numerous, thin, rounded at the 
end, usually much shorter than the scape, but sometimes of half 
its length. The outer involucral bracts are ovate, and have on 
their backs a broad green herbaceous band extending to a little 
beyond their summit where it forms a strong and short mucro. 
The inner bracts are also furnished with the dorsal green band, 
but in them it terminates abruptly at some distance below the 
end which is similarly scarious with the sides. The calyx-tube 
is very thickly clothed with hair both on its angles and in the 
hollows between them ; it is about as long as the limb which has 
short acute lobes each furnished with a slightly excurrent rib 
forming a short awn. 
Boissier states that he has seen specimens of this plant from 
England and Ireland, and that it inhabits the maritime districts 
of northern and middle Europe. He does not quote any figure of 
it, nor am | aware that any exists, for that contained im ‘ Eng. 
Bot.’ doubtless represents A. pubescens, to which also belong most 
of my specimens preserved under the name of A. maritima, The 
only specimens to which I can satisfactorily apply the name of 
A. maritima were gathered in Jersey in June and July 1837 and 
1838 by myself, and near Chichester, Sussex, by the Rev. W. 
W. Newbould in 1842. 
2. A. pubigera (Boiss.); foliis linearibus obtusiusculis uninerviis 
subtriquetris superne subcanaliculatis punctulatis facie inferiori ob- 
tuse carinatis, scapis pubescentibus, involucri phyliis pallide brun- 
neis scariosis dorso incrassatis exterioribus cuspidatis, reliquis 
latis obtusis apiceque scariosis, pedicellis tubo calycis dimidio brevio- 
ribus. 
A. pubigera 6. scotica, Boiss. in DeCand. Prod. xii. 678. 
A. maritima, Bab. Iceland Plants in Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. 33. 
The leaves of this plant are shorte than those of A. maritima, 
and their sides are so far folded together as to cause them to ap- 
pear to be very narrow. The outer involucral bracts are blunter 
than those of the preceding plant, but have a more slender and 
acute point. My specimens do not afford me conclusive evidence 
of the presence or absence of a dorsal green band, but the bracts 
