59. PLUMBAGINACE^,. 305 



Native. Littoral, Rupestral. All around the coasts of 

 Britain ; also, on the summits of various mountains ; more 

 rarely, upon rocks in the mountain-valleys. A question is 

 attached to the indication of a general area above, because 

 I am not prepared to adduce a published record or autho- 

 rity for the occun-ence of the species on the coast of the 

 Trent province ; the void doubtless being attributable to 

 the absence of any list of Lincolnshire plants, excepting a 

 few of the rarer species. One or two of our subordinate 

 forms of this species are now supposed to be distinct. 



896. Armeria plantaginea, Willd. 



Sarnian. A plant of Jersey, hitherto not discovered on 

 the coasts of Britain properly so called. 



Statice tatarica, Linn. 



Area [2j. 



Incognit. This name has got among those of English 

 plants by a strange error on the part of Dr. Lindley, who is 

 said to have thus designated the Statice rariflora, on the 

 first discovery of that species in England ; although it is 

 very difficult to conceive any botanist, evefrthe most hum- 

 ble tyro, mistaking the one for the other, after having seen 

 both species. Among botanists Dr. Lindley holds a high 

 place, and most deservedly so ; somewhat vulgarized though 

 his name and fame unfortunately may be by the clumsily 

 applied puffery of incompetent scribes in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle. And yet, as if expressly to show how much of 

 excellence, and how much of inferiority, may be found in 

 the writings of the self-same individual, we have seen 



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