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réfrécies en un trés long pétiole.”” “ S. Limontum’ L.” is credited 
with having ‘ bractée int. une fois plus longue que l’ext. ; épillets 
gros, imbriqués, forme une panicule corymbiforme; feuilles molles, 
oblongues, spatulée 
Last summer, whilst botanizing _ Leg oii J. W. White and 
ucknall upon the French coast near Narbonne, plants that 
accet well with Boissier’s descriptio +g “of macroclada were often 
seen, The glaucous leaves, and very elongated patent branches 
forming a panicle broader than long, ma the plant a facies unlike 
that of any British specimens I have seen of L. vulgare ; the calyx, 
too, seems usually only 24-24 lines jotg and so is smaller than in 
the normal plant. I have failed to observe the other distinctions 
noted by Gillet and Magne, and I fear the bract and leaf differences 
will not be found to hold good in actual examination. The bracts 
of my Narbonne ors exactly match those of type-specimens 
of Syme’s * pyramidalis, 
Although I sigukal hesitate to regard the variety ‘‘ macroclada”’ 
a ae of these islands, Dr. L. M. Neuman labelled a plant of 
Rev S. Marshall’s gathering at Eastbourne, Sussex, 1885, 
- ee dubio var. macroclada.” The specimen he saw has ver 
spreading branches, and certainly a Soest look of this variety, 
but I prefer to consider this solitary example an extreme an 
unusual state of the f. pyramidale, as it possesses sai Anes very 
bluntly pointed—a peculiarity almost unknown in our British 
forms. Mr. Marshall tells me that he thinks the plant had a the 
glaucous leaves of macroclada when fresh. It seems that this 
variety is quite a southern form, and unlikely to occur in England. 
variety macroclada can e cidepiie be very lex eee red—a 
specimen in Herb. Boissier has spikes reminding one of L. humile ; 
ie are unilateral, and the aminclols are distant re 1-2-flowered. 
re are barren branches a7 bracts, and the calyx, &c., 
heleite to L. vulgare and not L 
As mentioned before, this. variety i is the 964 S. serotina Rehb. 
eee: Fl. Germ. 1134, ¢. ic. 998), and also his 1516 S. scoparia 
all. (Rehb. Pl. Crit. iii. ic. 391; Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1135). Type- 
specimens of both have been seen in the Kew, ae and Boissier 
peg the plant at =e from | 6 Osero, in oe eestrande. 
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In se Mat Syn, Fi. Sic. ii. =o 05 (1843), we find “ fresh 
name, S. drepanensis o. The description given show it 
might well be classed as a lax-flowered state of Boissier’s se 
(mentioned above), but the statement, ‘“ ramis . tuberculato- 
scabris,”’ seems sufficient to keep it distinet from n that, at any rate 
as a variety. Specimens in Herb. Boissier show the rough upper 
ranches well, and the lax spikes of flow 
897 Dr. M. Neuman salle attention (Bot. Notiser, 
203) to a variety of Statice scanica Fr. (L. vulgare), which he 
named ‘‘hallandica.”’” According to him, L. vulgare is confined, in 
Sweden, to She Demo coast, and L. humile to Bohusliin and 
