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NOTES ON JZIMONIUM.* 
By GC. E. Saumon, F.L.S. 
VIII.—Liwonium Gmeuinu O. Kuntze. 
In 1797 Willdenow (Sp. Pl. i. 1524) described this sea lavender 
as follows :— 
oblongo-obovatis g ie g marginatis subtus 
mucronatis. W. §. caule nudo ramoso, floribus paniculatis, 
mens + of S. Gmelini from the Berlin Museum, and also examples 
of S. scoparia from Herb. Pallas in the National Herbarium, and 
find that they are identical. 
In Herb. Willdenow there is also a specimen to which he 
gave the name of S. glauca; Roemer & Schultes (Syst. Veg. vi. 
799, 1820) refer to this, giving a short diagnosis from Willde- 
now’s MS$8.; this plant proves to be simply a young example of 
good and detailed description of our plant, dividing it into two 
segregates—a genuina and + laaxifl 
tinctive features :—a genwina, scapo conferte paniculato-corym- 
ssi 
boso, spicis dense scorpioideis. n omni 
Sibiria Altaica (Ledeb.) et Baicalensi (Turez.), Songoria (Kar. et 
ir.), Hungari (Wierb., Reichb.), Byzantio (Cas- 
+ i “cc 
garid et Banatu 
laxi 
It C for the 
large-panicled loose-spiked plant, but, as mentioned in this Journal 
3 (pp. 6, ;monium is a most variable genus, and one 
must not be surprised at constantly finding individuals that will 
or even the more ample diagnosis of his aggregate species. 
For instance, Boissier, following Willdenow, states that D. 
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* See Journ. Bot. 1903, 65; 1904, 361; 1905, 5, 54; 1907, 24, 428; 
1908, 1. 
+ The cover contains two sheets. No. lis S. Gmelini W. No. 2, S. ovali- 
folia Poir. 
Journat or Borany.—Vot. 47. [Avaust, 1909.] Z 
