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short and dense-flowered (usually accompanied by few sterile 

 branches), or longer and lax-flowered (with more copious sterile 

 branches), but all variations occur. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, 

 distichously and densely imbricate or contiguous or even distant 

 (rare). Outer bract £-lJ lines long, and about as broad, ovate 

 obtuse, mucronate or not, wholly hyaline with faint veins at base. 

 Middle bract f-lj lines long, irregularly oblong-obovate, bifid or 

 truncate or rounded, hyaline with veins. Inner bract l|-lf lines 

 long, ovate or obovate, broadly hyaline at sides and upper third 

 (in Russia very rarely on upper half), more than half as long 

 again as outer bract. Bracteoles 1 line long, oblong-obovate, 

 hyaline, rounded or blunt. Calyx 1^-2 lines long, irregularly 

 hairy near base, particularly on veins, occasionally almost gla- 

 brous, calyx-lobes triangular-acute or (particularly in Greece 

 and Eussia) shallowly rounded ; veins of calyx not running 

 beyond base of lobes, and rarely so far ; lobes white, never 

 coloured, often finely denticulate, with no intermediate teeth. 

 Corolla small, pale lilac. 



Distribution. — England: 27. Norfolk East. Cley! Mr. Woods 

 (Herb. Borrer); 1834! C. C. Babington d J. S. Henslow (Herb. 

 Edinburgh). Cromer! 1838, H. Baber (Herb. Brit. Mus.).— 

 28. Norfolk West. Holme ! 1807, Dr. Sutton (Herb. Kew). 

 Wells! Herb. D. Turner (Herb. Kew). Holkham ! 1844, Miss 

 Carr (Herb. Petersburg). Titchwell ! 1847, K. Trimmer (Herb. 

 Watson). Hunstanton ! 1866, M. A. Laiuson (Herb. Brit. Mus.). 

 Near Heacham ! 1886, J. T. Powell (Herb. W. R. Linton). Burn- 

 ham Overy ! and Brancaster Marshes! Miss Bell (Herb. Watson). 

 —29. Cambridge. Near Wisbeach ! 1796, Jas. Sowerby (Herb. 

 Brit. Mus.). — 54. Lincoln North. On the sea-beach at Freston ! 

 Banks (Herb. Brit. Mus.). [53. Lincoln South. Forssdyke Wash, 

 Sir J. Banks. Record doubtful.] France — south and south-w r est 

 coasts (Bouches-du-Rhone ! Herault! Aude! Pyrenees-Orientales ! 

 Basses-Pyrenees !) ; Spain — north-east coast (Catalonia!) ; Balearic 

 Isles (Nyman) ; Italy — north-east and south-east coasts (Venetia ! 

 Emilia ! Apulia !) ; Sardinia ! ; Corsica ! ; Austria- Hungary (Dal- 

 matia !) ; Greece (Attica !) ; Rumania ! ; Rumelia (Nyman) ; 

 Turkey — south-east coast (Macedonia !) ; Russia — all along the 

 southern shores and extending inland some two hundred and fifty 

 miles (Astrakhan ! round the Black Sea ! Caspian Sea ! Sea of 

 Azoff ! Bessarabia ! 



For the English county records I have noted the earliest 

 occurrences for the plant from herbarium specimens examined. 



LlMONIUM BELLIDIFOLIUM Dum. Var. PATENS. 



S. caspia Willd. var. patens Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 661. 

 S. patens Fisch. herb. ! 



Whole plant, including bracts, calcareously-scaly ; branches 

 of scape more patent than in type; sterile branches practically 

 absent ; hairs on calyx adpressed. 



Found by Fischer on the Altai Plains about Loktiew, Western 

 Siberia ! 



