Mr. C. C. Babington on British species o/* Plumbaginacese. 439 



point and a white or brownish membranous margin ; inner twice 

 or three times as long, white and membranous at the sides and 

 blunt or emarginate or split summit. Leaves blunt with a mucro 

 and wavy at the edges, or acute and mucronate and scarcely at 

 all wavy. 



Muddy salt marshes on the English coasts. Is it found in 

 Scotland or Ireland ? 



2. S. Bahusiensis (Fries) ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis mucronatis uni- 

 nerviis venis inconspicuis in petiolum decurrentibus, scapo sub- 

 angulato ramosissimo paniculate, spiculis 1-3-floris secundis di- 

 stantibus in spicas arrectas vel incurvatas laxe dispositis, calycis 

 limbo propter denticulos minutes inter lobes majeres denticulatos 

 acutos sites subdecemlobo, bractea exteriori parva derse herbaceo 

 subexcurrente. 



S. Bahusiensis, FrieSy *' Herb. Normale, iii. 18;" Summa, 200 ; Z>e- 

 Cand. Prod. xii. 644. 



S. Limonium, 2. Bahusiensis, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. i. 10 ; 

 Mant. ii. 17 (excl. syn.). 



S. rariflera, Drej. Fl. Hafn. 121 ; Reich. Fl. exsic. 2200; Eng. BoL 

 Suppl. t. 2917. 



Scape nearly always branching from near its base, not at all 

 corymbose, and although much divided below, the ultimate sub- 

 divisions (or spikes) are long and simple. Spikelets often only 

 I -flowered, quite distinct, not imbricated. Outer bract broad, 

 cuspidate or acute, with a slight mucro and a white membranous 

 margin usually deeply tinged at its base with pink ; inner twice 

 as long, very blunt. Leaves usually blunt with a mucro from, 

 or from just beneath, the extremity, nearly even at the edges. 



Inhabiting less muddy places than S. Limonium, and found 

 throughout the United Kingdom. 



A few observations upon the name of this plant are necessary. 

 Boissier has adopted that employed here, owing probably to Fries's 

 observation in his ' Summa Plant. Scand.' (200) : " e prio7'itatis 

 lege hsec species S. Bahusiensis, sub quo nomine sex annos ante 

 Dreyerum descripsi et in H. N. distribui, dicenda est.^^ At a 

 first view this would seem most conclusive, but on a more careful 

 examination it appears that the name was given in the ' Mantissa 

 altera' (anno 1839) to the plant as a species having been used 

 for the sake of distinction, but apparently not specifically, in the 

 ' Mant. prima' (1832). As unfortunately I am not in possession 

 of the ' Herb. Normale,' iii., I do not know if the plant was there 

 considered as a species or variety (although from the remark 

 already quoted probably as the former), nor the date of its pub- 

 lication. Drejer published his ' Flora Hafn.' in 1838, and has 

 therefore the priority if the second ' Mantissa ' is the origin of 

 the name S. Bahusiensis used specifically ; but if it was so used 



