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must be a very local form, possibly occurring only in small 
quantity in each station The Catalonian localit ity may, indeed, 
produce this no longer, as M. Sennen, of Barcelona reported, in 
1914, that t he had Sidiined the neighbourhood of Monjuich (the 
‘‘Montjouy”’ of Boissier, /.c.), where he says very few Statices 
occur, and could o re find S. Si Willd. Willkomm & Lange 
(Prod. Fl. Hisp. ii. p. 375 (1870) ) do not admit S. menuta as a 
Spanish plant, and Costa (Fl. Cataluna, P. 209 (1877) ) asserts that 
S. minuta ¢. dissitiflora Boiss. does not et ~ o a ich, but 
satisfactorily under a other s or instance, an 
aoletti (Ic. fi. i 2716) Seorte a plant that sari cat looks 
like normal S. min but when one finds the same authors 
(Fl. anal. Ital. ii. 1903) including such good species as S. vir- 
eae ne and S. minutiflora Guss. as varieties under S. minuta, 
only conclude that they, like Gussone, Bertoloni, and 
Pista, failed to grasp the essential characters of the true 
Similarly U. Martelli, in his Revista Crit. spec. Ital. gen. 
Statice, 1887, arranges S. ee Willd., S. remotispicula Lacaita, 
S. Cumana Ten., an r diverse species as bgp under 
S. minuta, and I fail ely to follow irs Revision. He makes, 
however, an interesting note upon S. minuta var. tical ylla on 
i hich 
the panicle ea more lax and luxuriant and the leaves being 
iathner Bice revolu 
(1896) : but as I find these botanists omit it in their later atti 
on this region (Fl. anal. de a ~— I presume there 
was some error or confusion of speci Jahandiez in Ann. 
Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulon, 1913, one doubt if it occurs in 
Algeria. 
It is pr artrenes necessary to be careful not to confuse small 
states of S. virgata with S. minuta; in the former species 
leaves are not er and their margins show a pellucid border 
when dry, the spikelets are more arcuate and the bract-proportions 
different, &e. 
; Paste synonymy, description, and distribution may stand as 
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