130 PENTANDRIA — PENTAGYNIA. [Statice. 



2. S. plantaginea, All. {Planlain-leaved Thrift) ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate 3 — 3-nerved, scape simj)lo bearing a rounded head, 

 leaves of tlie involucre cuspidate, awns of the calyx long. All. 

 Ped. 71. 1606. — S. scorzonerifolia, Will J. — *S'. cejjiialolcs, Ait. — 

 Armeria alliacea, Willd. — Reich. Ic. t. 966. 



Found in Aug. 1833, growing abundantly in the sandy district of 

 Quenvais on the west side of the Island of Jersey ; W. C. Trcvdyan, 

 Esq. Fl. June, July. If-- — Other synonyms might probably with safety 

 be brought, could we compare our plant, (which is certain]}' the S. plan- 

 taginea of the French, Swiss, and, I tliink, the German Botanists) with 

 authentic specimens. It is readily distinguished from S. Aiiiteria by the 

 strongly cuspidate involucre, broad leaves, and long setaceous teeth to 

 the calyx. Flowers pale purple. 



** Flowers unilateral on a puniculated scape. 



3. S. Limonium, L. [spreading -spiked Thrift or Sea-Lavander^ ; 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate stalked mucronate single-ribbed, scape 

 angular with a much branched spreading corymb at the top, 

 calyx with deep acute plaited segments and intermediate teeth. 

 E. Bot. t. 102. 



Frequent on the muddy shores and salt-marshes of England and Ire- 

 land : rare in Scotland, and confined, I believe, to the southern coasts. 

 Fl. July, Aug. 1^. — Leaves 4 inches to a span high, ^ or fths as tall as 

 the scape, single-ribbed with lateral oblique veins, mucronated : the mucro 

 is recurved, being " a continuation of the margin of the leaf, and is chan- 

 nelled. Scape angular, often furrowed above, with a coarse uneven sur- 

 face." Panicle truly corymbose and level-topped, with spreading, or 

 sometimes, recurved branches, in which respect it differs remarkably from 

 the following species. Cal., as Mr Wilson observes, " with deep ovato- 

 oblong, toothed, acute, spreading segments, reflexed in the margin and 

 with intermediate teeth. Anthers yellow. Pollen with 3 pellucid dots, 

 compressed. Germen granulated. Stigmas rough with prominent but 

 minute papillaj." — Notwithstanding the similarity of appearance in the 

 blue blossoms of this plant to those of the Lavander, it is still but 

 " The sea-lavander, 'which lacks perfume.'" — Crabbe. 



4. S. spathuldta, Desf. (tipright-spihed Thrift) ; leaves spa- 

 thulate with a short mucro glaucous 3-nerved at the base, scape 

 branched from below the middle, panicle elongated, branches 

 distichous, spikes erect, calyx with plane blunt segments with- 

 out intermediate teeth. Desf. Fl. Atl. v. i. p. 273 S. cordata, 



G. E. Smith, in Cat. of PL of Kent. p. 18, t. 2. f. 2, (vix Linn.) 

 — S. hinervosa, G. E. Smith in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2663. — S. 

 Limonium, (3. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 116. 



Coast of Kent in several places. Harwich. Rocks near Holyhead, 

 and St Bees' Head, near Whitehaven. Devon. Somerset. INIuU of Gal- 

 loway, Scotland, Dublin, and N. of Ireland. Fl. Aug. If. . — Much credit 

 is due to the Rev. G. E. Smith, who published this plant in 1829, and 

 clearly distinguished it from S. Limonium ; and no less to Mr W. Wilson 

 and Mr Coldie, both of whom had previously sent it to me as distinct 

 from S. Limonium : though they at first fell into the very natural error 

 of considering it to be the aS. reticulata. Mr Wilson has so well re- 

 corded its discriminating characters in a letter to me of August 1828, 



