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straight spikes (never horizontal or recurved), and the very obtuse 
(never acuminate) leaves, and compares S. Dodartii with his 
lychnidtfolia, S. densiflora (L. Girardianum O. Kuntze), and with 
S. spathulata of Hooker — Flora, 145 (18380) ). 
f the last-named ich is now correctly placed under L 
occidentale), Girard only ads mined specimens gathered at the Mull 
of Galloway (a form noticed later in these notes), which were dwarf 
examples two or three inches high. He noted that, as compared 
with his Dodar tit, the outer cool . wigs Hse was longer and 
sharper, and the inner bract n r and almost pointed at the 
o separate these Scotch plants from Dodartii, He ee, 
named these dwarf specimens S. Dodartii var. humilis, but t 
gr later gave that arg ‘i a synonym of a newly describe red 
- Bubanii (Ann. Sc. Sér. 3, ii. 826 (1844) ), oo authors 
ae in considering ideation with L. occidentale O. 
et us now examine the British records of L. Dadar In 
1849, C.C. sta published in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd series, 
ili. 483, a paper upon the British Species of Plwmbaginacee, in 
which he described 8. ‘Dodue tit Gir., and soca ae looalities for it 
in England and Wales. His description of ies is not very 
satisfactory. Eleven years later he p nblished (lee z v. "v.40 02) another 
paper upon S. Dodartit, and . that, having had the opportunity 
of seeing a specimen of the genuine French Dodar tii, he considered . 
the plants from the four British localities mentioned in his previous 
paper as belonging to S. occidentalis, and not to Dodartii. He 
continued :—* But at the same time that the authority for Cae 
S. Dodartii in the British flora is destroyed, I am enabled to 
cause for its restoration to our Catalogue. There has long ent a 
unnamed specimen of Statice in my herb., which was gathered a 
Portland, Dorset, in Sept. 1882, by Prof. Henslow. This is “tite 
similar to the authenti tie S. Dodartii supplied to me by Billot, agrees 
well with Girard’s description, and is cote Ni like the fine old 
of Limonium minus Bellidis minoris folio to be found in Dodart’s 
ng (ed. 1, p. 95). It is a coarse inelegant plant, of a ver 
aspect from any state of S. occidentalis. The distribution 
of this so has to be determined, for it iis searcely to be supposed 
that Portland is its only English station. 
On the strength of this statement L. Dodartii is included in 
our handbooks as a British plant to the present day, though the 
b 
Syme, too, assigns to Dodar tii the character, ‘‘ Scapes 
branched only in the upper half.’ 
These statements are siiaioadial as regards true L. Dodartii, 
but, as an examination of specimens at the British Museum and 
elsewhere of the Portland plant shows, they fit perfectly well the 
species gathered in that locality. 
Through the kindness of Prof. Marshall Ward and Mr. R. H. 
