NOTES ON STATICE 327 
The Corsican plant may usually be porictaaipe at a glance 
by its remarkably elongated divisions of the root-stock, provided 
te numerous not very closely imbricated ee hich ha ave a 
uch more rages outline than those of minuta sais: an apex 
never rounded or retuse, but pointed; their margins, too, never 
seem so strongly revolute when dry, nor is the channel so marked, 
asin minuta. There are ge the bract and calyx characters to 
rely upon, and well-grown examples of the plant show scapes 
more branched than in acd. with the Bost often more 
divaricate. 
The synonymy, description, and distribution of the two plants 
may be arranged as follow 
SraTIcE ACUTIFOLIA Reichb. Ic. aid iii, 23 (1825), excl. er 
hist.; non Reichb. fil. Ic. germ.; Bertol. Fl. Ital. i "590 
(183 7); Barbey, FI. eg Soci. (1885). 
S. tenuifolia Bertol.! ex Moris, Stirp. Sard. el. fase. ii. 8 
(1827-1829) ; Colla, Herb, Ped. iv. B51 (1835). 
S. iG Badarr.! ex Reichb. Fl. germ. excurs. i. 191 
(1831), excl. loc.; Moris, Fl. Sard. iii. 43 (1858-59); 
Ezxsicc.—Fiori et Béguinot, fl. ital. exsice. 1102! 
Radix lignosa supra in confertas non elongatas partes crebro 
a 
a gree nana, glabra, parum scabrida; foli arva, 
perspicue acuta, setacea aut Hnent-laneeolatn (raro_ lineari- 
Sheriial, dense abelagins crassa rugosa nec margine revo- 
luta. Scapus 3- altus, aaptan, anxte basin ramosus; rami 
mn i sar inferiores steriles pauci. Spice erecta, 
pauciflorz dissitiflore ; bract edia quam exterior esqui- 
ng tea i r quam exterior + 2°5 plo longior; calyx 
circa 5 mm. longus, fere 8 aber aul in dimidio cage pe ty parce 
irca 6 mm. 
violacea. 
Root perennial, woody, divided at the crown into numerous 
not elongating divisions, forming a + dense cushion. Plant 
dwarf, glabrous, slightly scabrid. Leaves small, acute or acumi- 
nate, setaceous or tinont-lansaclass (rarely linear-obovate), densely 
imbricate, thick, not taser’ nor with margins revolute. Scape 
cm ran c 
flo ‘ ary al: 
Outer bract 13-2 mm. long and slightly broader, irregularly 
triangular-acute, with broad membranous = argin, herbaceous 
portion + apiculate, glabrous. Middle bract 2-2} mm. lon 
and ne as broad, orbicular-ovate (or -obovate), apex rounded 
or erose, yuiies with two veins, i sre less than half as lon 
again as outer bract. Inner bract 43-5 mm. long, about 3 mm. 
— oval, + obtuse, with broad Se es margin, herba- 
us portion a _— glabrous, about 24 times sogae than outer 
bract. Bracteole 1, about 3 mm. long, larly obovate, a 
rounded or erose, ‘hyaline with veins, 2 Saag Calyx ‘shen 
