Mr. C.C. Babington on British species of Plumbaginacee. 437 
- Hort, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who gathered it on the Tors 
near the sea at Ilfracombe, Devonshire, in July 1848, by whom 
the specific name was suggested. 
5. A. plantaginea (Willd.); foliis lineari-lanceolatis 3—5-nerviis 
margine anguste membranaceis, scapis glabris scabris, involucri 
phyllis exterioribus triangularibus lanceolatisve cuspidatis in 
alabastro juniori capitulum superantibus, reliquis ovatis obova- 
tisque membranaceo-marginatis obtusis, pedicello vix tubo calycis 
dimidio zquante. 
A. plantaginea, Willd. En. Berol. i. 334; DeCand. Prod. xii. 683 ; 
fing. Bot. Suppl. t. 2928. 
The broader leaves furnished with more than one nerve di- 
stinguish this plant from our other species. It is remarkable 
that Boissier describes the pedicel of this species as equalling 
the calyx-tube, whereas I have never found it to equal the half 
of that part in length, and that he combines with it the A. scor- 
zonerifolia (Willd.), to which Koch awards a pedicel sborter than 
half the calyx-tube. 
Our only station for this plant is the island of Jersey. 
Having described all the supposed species which are known 
to be natives of Britain, I proceed to make a few remarks upon 
two specimens preserved in my herbarium which I am unable to 
refer to either of the above, and do not feel myself justified in 
naming even as probable new species. 
1. A plant gathered at Trewavas near Marazion in Cornwall, 
in July 1839. 
This accords in most respects with A. pubescens, but has quite 
glabrous scapes, ovate and scarcely acute outer bracts, and very 
short petioles. Its heads also are remarkably small. Had not 
so much stress been laid upon such differences as these by Bois- 
sier and others who have a far more extended knowledge of the 
genus than I possess, I should have unhesitatingly placed this as 
a form of A. pubescens, and it is only a deference for high autho- 
rities that even now prevents me from doing so. It exactly re- 
sembles some of the smaller states of that plant. 
2. A plant found on the shores of the Gare Loch m Dumbar- 
tonshire in Aug. 1838 by the Rev. Churchill Babington. 
This also agrees very closely with A. pubescens, and is probably 
a variety of it. It differs solely in having its spikelets shortly 
but distinctly stalked within the involucre. This character is 
employed to distinguish a subsection by Boissier, and is there- 
fore doubtless deserving of attention. 
I may now remark, that of the above supposed species A. ma- 
ritima and A. pubescens most closely resemble each other, their 
outermost bracts differ slightlyin form, and the latter has its calyx- 
tube pilose only upon the prominent angles, the interstices beng 
