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LXVII. rLUMBAGIXACE^E. 



spreading or sometimes recurved densely flowered branches, in wli" 

 respect this species appears chiefly to diifer from the followin<>-. 



2. S. Bahusiensis Fries {remote-fiowered S.) ; leaves oblono- 

 lanceolate stalked mucronate single-ribbed faintly nerved sca^" 

 nuich branched from near the base panicled, branches ascendir 



or nicurved, spikes elongated with rather distant flowers calyx* 

 segments acute with intermediate teeth. S. rariflora 7)^ " 

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Muddy shores, more widely distributed than the last. Chichester 

 Creek, Sussex; Fareham Creek, &c. near Portsmouth; Devonshire- 

 Kent ; Suffolk. Wigtonand Kirkudbrightshire, Scotland. Galwav' 

 Ireland. T}.. 7, 8. — Perhaps too nearly allied to S. Limonium. ' ' 



3 S. Unervom G. E. Sni. (upright-spiked S.) ; leaves spa- 

 thulate narrowed into a winged stalk more or less mucronate 

 somewhat 3-nerved at the base, scape branc:hed from below the 

 middle, panicle elongated, branches distichous, spikes ere-t 

 c^Ijx with plane blunt segments without intermediate teetV 



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-^..„., ^. ^^. I,. ^. J. ^. ^^J^J. j^inn^^ ^. spatiiulata 

 b. Limonium /3. E. Fl v. ii. p. 116. 



On rocks and cliffs near the sea. Coast of Kent ; in several places • 



Harwich ; rocks, near Holyhead; St. Bees' Head, near Whitehaven- 



13evon; Somerset. Mull of Galloway, and south of Clanyardfell,' 



Wigtonshire ; Scotland. Dublin, Waterford, and N. of Ireland 



Jersey and Guernsey. 2^. 7, 8. - This has been lately divided 



into two species by Boissier: 1. S. Dodartii Gir., sterile branches 



none, s],ikes thick and densely imbricated. 2. S. occidentalis Lloy 1 



some of the lower branches .terile, spikes slender. We find 



every intermediate form among our Brid.h specimens : it is true 



th.u Boissier adduces some other characters, but these we cannot 



rceive m any of them. According to Boissier, who had exam ned 



the specimens, the S. spatludata of Desfontaines is quite a .litferent 



Zmus Thl ;!?P^^ ^l ^'''''''' '■" ^' CandoUe's Pro- 



panicuiaS wi"/- ^"ff f ^'"'^^^^ ' ^^'-^^'^^ ^pathulate, scapes 

 dfst nctlv brnl i'T '^''i'^'" 7'*^ numerous slender zigzag 

 distmctlj bracteated branches, of which the upper ones onlv 



bear flowers, axds of the branches acute3led flovverl 



Sme'diat't^e^lf ""T T'l"''' ^-thed^Lgm^em's wiZt 

 E B t 328 reticulata Sm. (not Linn. Sp. PL) 



wlr;ervshorI'/e«;r ."^ •^-aller than eithe? of the two last, 

 ^er^ .hort leaves. Scapes several from the same root, remarkable 







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