PLUMUAGlNACKiE. 1G3 



ill 2-r;iiiki(l subdistichous or more rarely subunilatcral erect strai^rht or 

 ineiirved spikes. Iiinermest bracteole hall" as lon^ ius the intermediate 

 one. 



In muddy salt marshes, growing with S. Behcu, but rather more 

 rare. On the west coast, extending as far north us St. Mur)''8 Isle, 

 Kirkcudbrijjilt ; on the east coast it docs not reach further than Cotlia?n 

 halt marshes in Yorkshire. In Ireland it appeals to be sparingly 

 .spread from one end of the island to the other. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. IV-rennial. Antunni. 



S. I'ahusiensis approaches in some of its forms so closely to S. Behen 

 that it onirht only to be considered as a subspecies. The ordinary 

 forms, however, are strikingly ditlVrent. The leaves of S. IJaliusiensis 

 ai'c generally narrower, more pointed, and the inner ones are seldom 

 destitute of an elongate mucro; the scape is often slightly angular, esj)c- 

 cially above, but the greatest ditl'crcnce is in the arrangement of its 

 spikelets, which are remote instead of almost contiguous; sometimes 

 they are so distant that the apex of the inner bracteole reaches to the 

 base of the spikelets next above it on the opposite side of the rachis; 

 at other times, however, it is only the apex of the short outermost 

 bracteole which reaches to the base of the next si)ikelet; the inter- 

 mediate bracteole is a little longer than in S. Behen, and all the three 

 have conunonly a broad belt of bright crimson surrounding the herba- 

 ceous portion, which is seldom the case in S. Behen, and although it 

 occasionally occurs in that ])lant, I have never seen the tint so bright 

 as it is in S. Bahusiensis. The erect or incurved spikes give the plant 

 a very different habit, but this appears to be merely de[)endent on the 

 spikelets being distant, as whenever the spikelets are close together the 

 spikes show a tendency to spread. The calyx and corolla of the two 

 species arc uudistinguishable from each other. 



Remote-fioucered Sea Lavender. 



Section II.— GLOBULARIASTRUM. Gren. & Godr. 



Leaves 1 -nerved or rib- veined, not pinnately veined. Scapes and 

 branches not winged. Axes of the spike not produced beyond the 

 flowei-s. Calyx slightly oblique at the base; limb not awned. 



SPECIES II.— ST ATI CE BINERVOSA- G.E.Sm. 

 rLATiis MCLIX. MCLX. 

 S. aaricalflDfoIia, Benth. Hanilb. Bnt. Fl. od. ii. p. 378. 



Rootstock woody. Leaves shortly stalked, oblanceolate or obovate, 

 with an indistinct rib at the base on each side of the midrib, but 

 with no lateral veins emanating from the midrib. Scapes paniculately 

 branched in the ujiper half or two-thirds, destitute or nearly destitute 



