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NOTES ON LIMONIUM. 
By C. E. Saumon, F.L.S. 
(Puate 449.) 
Turovenr the kindness of many botanists, ‘ have lately been 
enabled to examine numerous fresh and dried examples of the 
various forms of the plants called Statice ie Vahl., S. 
Dodartii Gir., S, occidentalis Lloyd, and the variety intermedia Syme, 
in our English handbooks. 
Of S. auriculefolia Vahl I have not been able see a type 
specimen, but Sir J. D. Hooker (Stud. Flora, edit. 8, p. 259) states 
that ‘* Boissier (who examined Vahl’s plant) a this to be 
S. spathulata Hook. non Desf., and in DC. Prodromus refers it to 
I Boissier, velo (l.c, xii. 647), considers his oaxylepis 
to be identical with S. densiflora Guss., a plant which I have not 
been able to discover in British herbaria 
Under oe circumstances, and also taking into sonaisoresans 
that Vahl’s own description of auriculefolia (Symb. Bot. i. 25 
(1790) ) iets: fi to porpose that under that name he included 
now separated as species, I would suggest that the 
retention of the name a aeialanie sh an an AgeTegNte is of little value, 
Reouely as Sours our British fo 
awe ext come to Limonium Dodartii _O. Kuntze (S. Dodartii 
in. long, ines 
thick, suberect, internodes scarcely diminished, branched alm 
from the base. Branches subdistichous, very erect, lax, rather 
thick, lower 3-24 in. long, middle shorter, upper almost wanting, 
Sl 
€ *. 
as long as exterior. Inner bract twice the length of outer, 2s lines 
long, scarcely 14 lines wide, obovate-elliptic or obovate, without a 
streak of reddish-brown between the membranous and opaque parts. 
Bracteoles 1-14 lines lon 
Gira hee points na that his plant may be distinguished at a 
glance by the robust rigid branches (none of which are sterile) 
springing from low down the scape, the very erect, almost vertical, 
Journat or Botany.—Vow. 41. (Marcu, 1908.] F 
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