NOTES ON LIMONIUM 11 
to separate this even as a variety. S. Timbali Gaut., of which I 
have seen type-specimens in Herb. Barbey-Boissier oes Kew, is 
obviously exactly identical; the label upon the specimens affords 
the information that the "plants are wb with * 8. serotina 
Reichb. var. angustifolia pitinnb a nd Gau 
AGGREGATA Rouy. The author aa weight upon the follow- 
ing characters :—Plant much branched; branches elongated and 
bare for a long distance, with branchlets at their ends bearing small 
plese ri cymes with very short spikes formed of spikelets very 
close together or even imbricate ; flowers small; calyx-lobes lan- 
ceolate, very acute, with denticulate margin. Of this I have not 
seen examples named by Rouy, but it is evidently one of the many 
forms of the very variable ** macroclada” of Boissier. It is said to 
occur upon the west coast of France and in Italy (= 8. Limontum 
Savi, Pl. oo sice 
The haiedildhss 8. et ged and S. remotiflora of M. Rouy’s 
paper wil be discussed la 
ynonymy, sseerscui; and nome Geran distribution of the 
plants ‘aiteae dealt with may stand as under 
Limontum vuneare Mill. ! Gard. a No. 1 (1768). 
L. maritimum majus Bauh. Pin. 192 (162% 
Statice Limonium L. Sp. Plant. ed. i. 274 (1758) (pro parte) 
(non Herb. !). 
S. caule nudo ramoso Hort. Cliff. ! 115 Lae parte) (1737). 
S. pseudo-Limonium Reichb.! Fl. Germ. Excurs. 191 (1880). 
S. scanica Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Man hs . 10 rem 
S. Behen Drej. Fi. Exeur. Ha. 1 22, (1888) 
S. Limonium L. B Behen Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 645 (1848). 
S. Limonium L. B rag Liman Rouy, Revue Bot. Syst. 
167 (1903). 
Exsicc.—J. Lange, Plant. Europ. Austral. 1851-52, 196! F. 
Sale Herb. Norm. Nov. Ser. Cent. 4, 822! fF. Schultz & 
F. Winter, Herb. Norm. Cent. 2, 188! Hb. aay hae 
(« L. marit. majus C. B. P. 192”). Fries, Hb. Nor ee 
Rehb. Fl. Germ. Exsice. 963! Linn. Hort. Cliff.! (onniseing iced 
of one spec.). Wirtgen, Hb. Pl. meni he 888! Hansen, Hb. 
ste -Holst. 488! Tod. Fl. Sic. Exsice. ! (‘*S. Limonium L.”). 
au, Env. de Toulon, 326! ‘Billot, “Fi. Gall. et Germ. 1052 ! 
(and macrocaden ae 
s plerumque supra medium ramosus, corymbosus; rami 
supra aath aliquantum nudi; spice erecte, patentes vel fecurve : 
spicule contigue vel dense imbricata ; calyx parce hirsuta, vel fere 
glabra, cum costis 2-3 glabris ; coste calycis limborum apices haud 
attingentes ; bractea Aan plerumque exteriore saltem duplo 
longior ; styli staminibus aquales vel eos excedentes, petala emargi- 
nata vel egra 
t variable, from 4 to 18 inches oe glabrous. Leaves 
pinnately veined, very variable in shape and size, usually o obovate- 
oblong, blunt or acute, mucronate or not, ser or short- 
Scape stout sub-terete, branched usually at or above the middle. 
