6 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Fries and Drejer, good comparative descriptions of L. vulgare, 
supplemented in 1848 by those given by Boissier in De Candolle’s 
Prodromus, xii. 644. 
Boissier called the aggregate plant Statice Limonium Linn., and 
proposed three varieties: « genwina, inhabiting the Mediterranean 
region and middle Europe; B Behen (the plant of Drejer and 
tired india in Northern France, England, North Germany, and 
and y macroclada, growing upon the shores of the 
Adriatic, bicily, Rumelia, and Syria. “The last variety is, it ap- 
pears, quite a Southern-EKurope plant, and we will first discuss the 
eae bie varieties. 
r British — we find that Syme (Eng. Bot. edit. iii. 
1867, 160) arranges both L. vulgare an 
under S. Linonium in callin sits former S. Behen Drej. (equivalent 
to Boissier’ 8 BB i 
Boissier’s a genut ere lag have been srs tie the courtesy 
in 
Boissier’s own specimens, and have seen at the conelusion that 
yme’s arrangement : Peg nyms is accurate as far as it goes 
ce - ea - Bot. 1881, 293) and Wooker (stad. Fl. 
Brit. Is. blo practical follow Syme, with some slight 
alterations a nomenclatu ure. 
us now eerie examine our British forms and compare 
them with book descriptions. Syme (J. c. jes relied upon the following 
aca to distinguish his plants:—S. Behen. Panicle compact, 
subcorymbose, a level-topped; branches short, stiff; spikes 
rather dense, elongate, at length usually recurved. pyramida 
Panicle very lax, pyramidal, the lateral branches widely spreading, 
flexuous; spi ikea short, rather lax. Kent, Sussex, and Dorset. 
Boissier’s descriptions (i. c.) for the same two. plants are:—f Behen: 
panicule arrecte condensate ramis oar scm plus minus 
densifloris, bracteis dorso late herbace ma: panicule 
dense corymbose ramis abbreviatis iabvatalis, spicis densifloris. 
In the genus Timteiesedh the branching of pa: i 
