346 62. PLUMBAGIXACE.E. 



about twice as long as the outer, with bright red band and membranous 

 margin. Auth. oblong. Rocks, Alderney, Mr. C. R. P. Andrews. 

 P. VII. VIII.] 



4. L. occidenidle (0, Kuntze) ; 1. lanceolate-spa thulate rather 

 acute narrowed into a long winged stalk obscurely 3-veined 

 below, scapes slender wavy forked branched from near the base, 

 few lowest branches sterile, spikelets 2 4-flowered imbricate 



2-ranked forming linear slender suberect spikes, cal.-segments 

 blunt entire without intermediate te^th, S. binervosa G. E. Sm. 

 E. B. S. 2663. St. usually branching quite from the base ; 

 branches repeatedly forked," long, often rough. Inner bracts 

 oval with broad membranous edge, deeply tinged with pink. 

 Auth. oval. /3. intermedium (Druce) ; all the branches flower- 

 ing, spikelets stouter. Rocky shores. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



5. L. reticuldtum (Mill.) ; 1. obovate or lanceolate-spathulate 

 narrowed into a petiole, st. branched from near the base 

 granular-rough, branches many slender repeatedly and acutely 

 forked uppermost alone bearing dense terminal spikes of 2 3- 

 flowered z-ranked spikelets, cal.-segments ovate cuspidate den- 

 ticulate. E. B. 328. S. caspia (Willd.) ed. viii. Remarkable 

 by its much divided sterile branches which fork at an acute 

 angle. L. small. Muddy sea-shores of Norf., and at Frieston, 

 Line. P. VII. VIII. E. 



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2. STAT'ICE Linn. (Armeria "Willd., ed. viii.) Thrift. 



1. S. marit'ima (Mill.) ; /. linear, \-veined, inv.-bracts very 

 blunt 1 3 outer ones mucronate, cal.-segments acute, cal.-tube 

 hairy or pilose-striate. L. all radical, many, narrow. Fl. rose- 

 coloured or white. a. L. flattish above very slender 1-veined. 

 A. maritima (Boiss.), A. pubescens Link. /3. planifolia (Syme) ; 

 1. nearly flat above broadly linear blunt, early 1. 3-veined. 

 Si/. E. B. 1153. y. A. duriuscula (Bab.) ; 1. subtriquetrous 

 channelled above very slender 1-veined. A. pubiyera and 

 A. duriusrula Bab. A small form with linear flat 1-veined 1. 

 but a pubescent scape from Shetland may be A. sibirica 

 (Turcz.). Muddy and rocky sea-shores, also on mountains. 

 J3, Scottish Highlands, Ben Lawers ! y. Southern sea-shore. 

 P. IV. IX. E. S. I. 



[S. plantagin'ea (All.) ; /. 3 5-veined linear-lanceolate with 

 a narrow membranous margin, scapes rough, outer inv.-bracts 

 triangular or lanceolate cuspidate, others ovate or obovate with 

 a broad membranous margin blunt, cal.-segm. with long points. 

 E. B. 8. 2928. Distinguished bv its leaver Jersey. P. 

 VI. VII.] 



