NOTES ON LIMONIUM 55 
but the description is clear as to what plant Miller had in view. 
‘* Branches thick set with short spikes’? I think means that the 
bramalil are thick set (¢.¢. close together), and not that the spikes 
are dense. 
1832, Fries _— i. 10) applied the name bahusiensis to the 
cette flowered form of the S. Limonium, ‘Li. Sue 0”: th 
0 orm, dense-flowered, he called scanica. The for a he cha- 
eoriced (Le. and Summa Scan. 1846, 200):—Leaves obovate- 
oblong mucronate at or under the apex, undulate, At A punc- 
tate, veins inconspicuous, lamina decurrent into petiole; scape very 
much branched, paniculate, angular ; spikes ‘ erecto se sg more 
incurved than recurved, with distant flowers; calyx-teeth acute 
denticulate. The latter he described as possessing leaves elliptic- 
oblong, mucronate at the apex, very smooth, densely : nigro-punctate, 
n examatiaiton ee living and dried specimens (including those 
in Fries’s own herbarium) points to . = nelusion that some of 
these “specific ” li ae are of little r 
For instance, in both plants the res $ vary in shape from 
long or amelie side gradually tapering to the petiole to an 
obovate blong rather — teem leaf ire! petioled ; one 
0. 
gards the insertion of the mucro, I fear also that little 
value can be attached to this supposed distinctive pear yi as leaves 
showing the — springing from both below and at the apex 
nen occur on the same plant. 
The asad grins we with the flatness, veining, and pun 
tation of or leaves all appear of no specific value ; the ‘ealyx- wer 
of both species are ok I believe, denticulate, but those of L. humile 
often appear to be so, because the teeth are more — and folds 
and irregularities : n the margin of the lobes 
Drejer (Fl. Exe = Hintisean 1838, 121) gave a short but in- 
teresting description of the two species; he compared, unfortunately, 
L. vul gare wit ith only diminutive examples of L. humile (which he called 
“variflora”’), and I may m ee here (although I — refer vf , 
again later) that Dr, L.M, Soum an, on examining Drejer’s — 
discovered that, besides a dwarf form of L. humile, “he had i 7 
eee sade the name 8S, rariflora) hybrids between da humile 
L. v 
Drejer, Saves, added a further shi, es character for our 
two species with respect to the bracts; these, in L. humile, he de- 
scribed as being obliquely truncate and salle with the outer 
broader em racing the inner, and all the bracts bearing ice 
in L. vulgare the bracts are acuminate- -mucronate, with the outer 
narrower, and the lower ones are empty. He also noted fea bright 
8 
I do no not think a hard- and-fast line can be applied to the sha) 
of bracts, although in the majority of cases those of humile do 
