434 Mr. C. C. Babington on British ^pme^ o/* Plumbaginacese. 



Armeria, Willd. 



Sec. 2. Plagiobasis. § 1. HoLOTRicHiE, Boiss. 



Tubus calycinus totus et ad castas et ad costarum intervalla pilosus. 



\. A. maritima (Willd.) ; foliis linearibus obtusiusculis uninerviis 

 plants glabris vel parce ciliatulis, scapis \\\\o?>\iYm,involucriphyllis 

 latis obtusisque, dorso late herhaceis exterioribus dorso excurrente 

 acutiusculis, reliquis late scarioso-marginatis muticis, pedicello 

 calycinum tuhum cequante. 



A. maritima, Willd. En. Berol. \. 333; DeCand. Prod. xii. 677. 



The leaves of this plant are numerous, thin, rounded at the 

 end, usually much shorter than the scape, but sometimes of half 

 its length. The outer involucral bracts are ovate, and have on 

 their backs a broad green herbaceous band extending to a little 

 beyond their summit where it forms a strong and short mucro. 

 The inner bracts are also furnished with the dorsal green band, 

 but in them it terminates abruptly at some distance below the 

 end which is similarly scarious with the sides. The calyx-tube 

 is very thickly clothed with hair both on its angles and in the 

 hollows between them ; it is about as long as the limb which has 

 short acute lobes each furnished with a slightly excurrent rib 

 forming a short awn. 



Boissier states that he has seen specimens of this plant from 

 England and Ireland, and that it inhabits the maritime districts 

 of northern and middle Europe. He does not quote any figure of 

 it, nor am I aware that any exists, for that contained in ' Eng. 

 Bot.^ doubtless represents A. puhescens, to which also belong most 

 of my specimens preserved under the name of A. maritima. The 

 only specimens to which I can satisfactorily apply the name of 

 A. maritima were gathered in Jersey in June and July 1837 and 

 1838 by myself, and near Chichester, Sussex, by the Rev. W. 

 W. Newbould in 1842. 



2. A. puhigera (Boiss.) ; foliis linearibus obtusiusculis uninerviis 

 suhtriquetris superne suhcanaliculatis punctulatis facie inferiori ob- 

 tuse carinatis, scapis pubescentibus, involucri phyllis pallide brun- 

 neis scariosis dorso incrassatis exterioribus cuspidatis, reliquis 

 latis obtusis apiceque scariosis, pedicellis tuba calycis dimidio brevio- 

 ribus. 



A. pubigera j3. scotica, Boiss. in DeCand. Prod. xii. 678. 



A. maritima, Bab. Iceland Plants in Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. 33. 



The leaves of this plant are shorter than those of A. maritima, 

 and their sides are so far folded together as to cause them to ap- 

 pear to be very narrow. The outer involucral bracts are blunter 

 than those of the preceding plant, but have a more slender and 

 acute point. My specimens do not afford me conclusive evidence 

 of the presence or absence of a dorsal green band, but the bracts 



