THE 
JOURNAL OF BOTAN. 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
rae ae 
NOTES ON JLIMONIUM.* 
By C. E. Saumon, F.L.S. 
VII.— Livonium Dupsyi O. Kuntze. 
(Puate 488.) 
Tue first reference to this remarkably local plant appears to 
be in De Cand md s Botanicon Gallicum, i. 388 (1828), where 
Duby describes it as follows :—S. dichotoma (Cav. Ie. i. p. 37 
t. 50), foliis lncoolato spathulatis mucronulatis petiolatis, — 
teretibus dichotomis ramosis ramis tuberculatis, floribus 
secundis laxé spicatis spicis paniculatis, bracteis obtusis vonioeis 
perigonii externi dentibus subacutis. 24 in arenosis maritimis agri 
Syrtici propé la Teste reperiit cl. Des Moulin 
The ncn my applies fairly well, but the peer ae with 
S. dichotoma Cav.—an endemic Spanish species—was 
erroneous. "ghee eats later the plant was ‘iahdded in 
Laterrade’s Fl. Bordelatse, ed. 4, 295, with practically the same 
diagnosis as that given =f Duby. 
Both Nyman (Conspec 
fu. rT. es 
to discover when t ap : ed. 2 of Laterrade’s 5 werk 
is dated 1821, cr the theghet was “iscovered : ed. 4 I have 
already quoted; ed. 3 is not to be found in the libraries at South 
Kensington, Hew or Linnean ise cg 
1850 o 
S. Dubyei. The 
Ne rates age Gouan] par sa panicule 
és-dre. non divariqués; par ses épillets plus gros, écartés 
= une Ge ee cmsance et disposés en épis allongés, laches, 
, non agglomérés au sommet des rameaux ; par sa sa bractée 
* See Journ. Bot. 1903, 65; 1904, 361; 1905, 5, 54; 1907, 24, 428. 
Journat or Borany.—Vot. 46. [Janvary, 1908] B 
