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inférieure bien plus longue, une fois plus corte que l’interne, 
lancéolée, aigué; par sa bractée interne membraneuse seulement 
bants, diffus, a rameaux bien plus allongés. Hab. Bayonne, la 
Teste, Vieux-Boncau 
e ciate seems a very good one for our plant, but 
ompa of examples of L. Dubyi with those of 
z hellidifolium I Mae failed to observe in the former the alleged 
distinguishing characters of wrinkled inner bract membranous 
only in its upper third and iaiger calyx. 
Boissier (/. c.) has preferred to unite L. Dubyt with L. bellidi- 
folium oe his herbarium it is labelled “S. caspia var. Dubyei ” 
but Nyman (Conspect. Fl. Europ. 612) kept both as distinct 
species. Mout 16 odern Floras adopt the latter plan, and it should 
gered be followed by those who distinguish DL. hwmile and 
L. vulgare; indeed, L. Dubyi differs from L. bellidifolium as 
regards the poe iver of Beier upon the branches almost 
exactly in a corres n 
Coste (FI. ones | ili. i61), poral ee that L. Dubyz is a species 
peculiar to the south-west of France. The Index Kewensis men- 
f a AG me 
those of Des Moving who ori ‘ginally discovered the pi t, and 
sent it to Duby, and also examples collected by Grenier, its chief 
divergences from L. peace cleus appear to be the elongated 
diffuse branches; the longer laxer spike with more separated 
spikelets ; the acute outer bract, which is also hones 2 in proportion 
to inner, and thus covers more of its herbaceous 
Liwonium Dupyi O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 395 (189 b)s 
Statice dichotome Duby in DC. Bot. Gall. i. 388 (1828); Mutel 
Fl. Fr. iii. 88 (1836), —~— tab. ; Laterr. Fl. Bord. ed. 4, 295 
(1846) ; non Cay. nec 
S. Dubyei ode. & Gren. #1 Pr. i 750 (1850 
S. caspia Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 660 (1848), pro parte (non 
aliorum 
Icon.—Coste FI. Fr. iii. 161, f. 3035. 
zsicc.—Lange Pl. Europ. Aust. 1851-52, 197! Soc. FI. 
Franco-Helvet. 1898, 887! Dérfler Herb. Norm. 4176! Billot, 
446 (ex 
iar ae tota granulato-scabra, glabra; squame rarissime foli- 
tifidi, rar 
ovata vel “isbsoolak p-dhowata' ; spice typice elongate laxiflore; 
spicule contigue sed non imbricate, interdum longe separate; 
bractea exterior 3-1 1. longa ovato-acuta, a bast hyalina; bractea 
— extertore. * sesquilongior, late et usque ad superiorem ter- 
am partem hyalina; calyx 13-23 1. longus, lobis albis nunquam 
