NOTES ON STATICE 241 
STATICE minuTA Linn. Mant. 59 (1767), excl. syn. L. siculum 
Boce.; Desf. Fl. Atlan. i. 275 a) 3 WaT Te. crit. ii. 
non auct 
S. minuta L. ey glabra Autheman exsicc. 
Limonium fruticosum minimum glabrum Pluk. ! Alm, 221 
16 
os minum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. pars 2, 395 (1891). 
—Pluk. A 200, f. 5!; Heichb, Teou. Crit ii. 6. 186, 
i. 351, me germ. xvii. b. 1144, £21; Mutel,* Fl. Fr. t. 55, f. 411!; 
Coste, Fl. Fr. iii. 30421; Cusin, FI. Fr. xix. t. 28! 
Hasice.—Billot, Fl. gall. et geen. 3187! Magnier, fl. select. 
2562! Soc. Rochelaise, 1896, 3975 
adix lignosa supra crebro pasties planta plerumque nana 
glabra, scabridula; folia parva obovato-spathulata in petiolum 
sensim attenuata, laxe imbricata sepe rosulata viva plana in sicco 
supra rugosa, margine leviter (in sicco ee revoluta, apice 
rotundata (sepe minute apiculata) in sicco recurva ita apicem 
pseudo-retusum formante. Scapus 5-10 cm. altus, erectus, a basi 
vel infra medium ramosus; rami pp Pas rami steriles pauct, 
paulo anfracti, seepius subsimplices, Spice laxiflore, ascendentes ; 
bractex nigricantes ; bractea media quam exterior sesquilongior ; 
bractea interior quam ee exterior 3°5-plo longior; calyx 
5-5'5 mm. longus; corolla diam. 5-6 mm., violacea 
Foot perennial, woody, long- lived, branching at the crown into 
several + elongating divisions bearing the remains of decayed 
leaves. Plant usually dwarf, glabrous, + ~scabrid. Leaves 
1-veined, small, obovate-spathulate, gradually tapering into petiole, 
laxly imbricate and often forming rosettes and rset the -_ 
branched iota 8 near base or below the middl le. Branches and 
branchlets + mcondiay sterile ‘eer few, slightly poeta 
usually almost simple.  § ikes a lax-flowered, + ascendin 
* These figures are copies, slightly altered, of those in Keichb., Icon. Crit. 
Journ or Borany.—Vou. 53. [Avaust, 1915.] 
