NOTES ON LIMONIUM 431 



The synonymy, description, and distribution in Europe of the 

 plants under discussion may stand as follows : 



Limonium bellidifolium Dum. Fl. Belg. 27 (1827). 



Statice Limonium L. y bellidifolia Gouan, Fl. Monsp. 231 



(1765). 

 S. reticidata Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 328 (1796) ; Sm. Fl. Brit. 342 



(1800) ; Bieb. Fl. Taur.-Cauc. i. 250 (1808) ; Sm. Eng. Fl. 



ii. 116 (1824) ; Hook. Brit. Fl. 146 (1830) (non L., nee al.). 

 S. olecBfolia, Host, Synop. PL Aust. 177 (1797) (non al). 

 S. cordata Suffr. Princip. Bot. 132 (1802) (non al.). 

 S. bellidifolia DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 421 (1805) ! Poir. Diet. vii. 402 



(1806) ; Willd. Herb. ! 

 S. caspia Willd. Enum. Hort. Bot. Berol. 336 (1809), and 



Herb. ! 

 S. airoides Tausch in Flora Supp. Sy 11 . Ratisb. ii. 255 (1828). 



Icones. — Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helvet. xvii. T. mcxlii. f. 3 ! 

 Reich. Ic. Crit. 2, f. 335 ! Gmel. Sib. 2, t. 89, f. 2 (mala !) ! Eng. 

 Bot. v. t. 328 ! Coste, Fl. Fr. 3036 ! 



Exsicc. — Reichb. Fl. Germ. Exsicc. 1908! Porta et Rigo, It. ii. 

 376! Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. 446! 446 bis I Orphanides, Fl. 

 Grgec. Exsicc. 695! Dorfler, Herb. Norm. 4175! Becker, PI. 

 Wolg. Infer. 40 ! Sieber, Dalmat. 387 ! Lang et Szovitz, PI. 

 Ruthen. Cent. i. 87! Magnier, Fl. Select. Exsicc. 1526 fo's ! 

 Callier et Dorfler, It. Taur. 711! Schultz, Herb. Norm. Nov. 

 Ser. 4, 327! Reliq. Mailleanse, 660! De Heldreich, PL Gra?c. 

 1806 ! (the small-flowered plant mentioned on p. 430). Rehmann, 

 It. Taur. 754 ! 



Planta tola granulato-scabra, glabra ; squamge rarissime foliaceae ; 

 scapus fere ab imo ramosissimus ; rami plurimi inferiores steriles, 

 multifidi, raro pauci aut rarissime nulli ; folia mox evanescentia, 

 fere modica, obovata vel lanceolato-obovata ; spicae breves et 

 densiflorse vel longiores et laxiflorae; bractea exterior |-1J 1. longa 

 a basi hyalina; bractea interior l|-lf 1. longa, dimidio et amplius 

 longior quam bractea exterior, marginibits et superiore tertia parte 

 (rarissime dimidio) hyalinis ; calyx l|-2 1. longus (rarissime minor), 

 lobis albis nunquam coloratis triang idaro-acittis vel rarius abbrevi- 

 atim rotundatis, saepe subtiliter denticulatis dentibus intermediis 



null is. 



Plant 1£-16 in. high or long, not hairy but scabrid-granular, 



particularly in upper parts. Scape stout or slender, very much 

 branched from near its base ; erect or decumbent, and when the 

 latter often forming a circle. Leaves soon disappearing, 1-3- 

 veined, usually 1, J-2 in. long, usually small, obovate or lanceolate- 

 obovate obtuse or more acute and mucronate ; petiole commonly 

 about as long as blade. Branches erect, spreading, or (occasionally) 

 arcuate-recurved ; many lower usually wholly sterile and much 

 divided, occasionally almost simple or wanting and all branches 

 floriferous. Branchlets often much subdivided. Scales triangular- 

 acute, the larger ones with acuminate points, about 3 lines long 

 at base of scape to | line at summit ; very rarely the lower scales 

 are foliaceous (chiefly in Italy). Spikes often scorpioid, either 



