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of his Limonium maritimum minimum, that this is also var. 
microphylla:—* Tota plantula uucias quatuor vix excedit; nam 
ad radiculam oblongam, rufescentem, in summo divisam, foliola 
minima, subrotunda, crassa, instar Sedi compacta, interque cauli- 
culi unciales, paucos flosculos pallide rubentes, vel subcxruleos 
sustinentes, exurgunt. Hoc in insula quadam non longe Massilia, 
provenit.” 
The figure ae uenieree as well as the locality cited in 
ai Pl. Sicil. 26, t. xiii. f. 3 (1674), point also to the same 
pe 
I consider, however, that the Limoniwm Nibesdie teas minimum 
aes of Plukenet’s ream rer 1696, pee description 
Boccone’s Limontum siculum, folio cordato Aes cit. 64, t. j 
cannot be placed under any form of S. minuta. The figure has 
been appropriated by Lojacono Pojero (Fl. Sic. ii. pars 2, 25, 1907) 
to rian his new S. Bocconi, bak judging by specimens kindly 
d 
and ete no sa heen one exists. 
There is little doubt that Bicitadon had in mind the variety 
microphylla of 8. sabe Sate in the following description (Theatr. Bot. 
1234 (1640) ) :—«5. Limoniwm minimum. The smallest Sea Marsh 
Buglosse. This least een | is scarse hy he inches high, having 
from a small long reddish roote parted at the toppe into sundry 
heads, a number of small fat roundish leaves thicke set together, 
in forme and manner of a small House-leeke, the flowers are few 
and small that ats on the small stalke, of a faint reddish blew 
colour. A i ese sorts grow in the wet fieldes neere the 
ea, some in our ow e land, as the first and second, the other 
three * next them in Fraiee about Mompelier, and Marselles, and 
Ligorne also. . . . The fourth and fifth are set forth by Bauhinus 
onely i in his Pinax and et rons.” 
Boissier in DC. Prodr. xii. p. 655 (1848) created four varieties 
of 8. minuta, as follow 
pube acide pu mube scens eet Ic. 2, tab. 326, oar 
DC. fis Gallia australi. Differt a S. pubescent vera ram 
sterilibus non flexuosissimis, nese superiori duplo aod. 
spiculis dissitis. 
‘4, microphylla, foliis ovato-rotundatis imbricatis seepe vix 
1-2 lin. longis Iatiague scapis fere capillaribus apice paucifloris— 
Formis i a is in s —- transit—In Gallia australi! Baleari- 
bus !—Boce. sic. tab. 13 et Pluk. alm. 200, f. 5 (pessima), 
8. acuti folic, foliis lineari-spathulatis acutis, scapis brevibus 
paucifloris—In Liguria (Moretti), Corsica ad Bonifacio (Salzm!), 
o. 5. It grows at Marseilles, but not at Mont- 
pall & or egoa gece seats must refer to Nos. 3 and 4, 
