438 Mr. C.C. Babington on British species of Plumbaginacez. 
quite glabrous. As far as I have myself had an opportunity of 
observing, the latter character appears to be constant ; but should 
such prove not to be the case, and I beg to call particularly the 
attention of botanists to it, then they might very well be com- 
bined under the name of A. maritima, the older although far 
from being the better name. 
If we now consider the other two doubtful species (for 4. plan- 
taginea cannot be questioned), A. pubigera and A. duriuscula, we 
shall find that if the herbaceous back of the bracts, a doubtful 
point as far as our plant is concerned, be neglected, the latter 
differs from the former by having longer pedicels and a pilose- 
striate calyx-tube. The character derived from the length of 
the pedicels is apparently so far constant as not to allow of its 
being neglected until greater evidence of its variability is obtamed. 
I trust that I may be allowed to recommend this point also to 
the attention of botanists who have an opportunity of examining 
the living plants. On the distinction founded on the calyx-tube 
no further remark is necessary. 
It does not appear that we are in a position to overthrow the 
characters upon which Boissier has founded his sections, and 
until such is the case we must recognize these four plants as 
distinct species, although I have a very strong suspicion that 
they really constitute only two. 
2. Sratice, Linn. 
I now proceed to attempt to bring the nomenclature of our 
species of Statice into conformity with that used in the ‘ Pro- 
dromus.’ In accordance with Boissier’s views, which I am in- 
clined to adopt, all our species will alter their names with the 
exception of S. Limonium, and one will be added to their num- 
ber. Our plants form part of the section Limonium (Boiss.) and 
will stand as follows. : 
1. S. Limonium (Linn.); foliis elliptico-oblongis mucronatis uni- 
nerviis venosis basi in petiolum attenuatis, scapo subtereti superne 
corymbosis, spiculis 1—3-floris ascendentibus in spicas secundas 
_ patentes vel recurvas distiche et dense congestis, calycis limbo prop- 
ter denticulos minutos inter lobos majores integros acutos sitos 
subdecemlobo, bractea exteriori parva dorso herbaceo carinato ex- 
currente, 
S. Limonium, Eng. Bot. t. 102 ; DeCand. Prod. xii. 644. 
S. Behen, Drej. Fl. Hafn. 122; Fries, Summa Plant. Scand. 200. 
S. Limonium, 1. Scanica, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. i. 10; Mant. 
ii,.17. : 
. Scape usually not branching in its lower half, often not until 
near the corymbose summit. Spikes short. Spikelets densely 
imbricated. Outer bract acute, with an excurrent herbaceous 
