NOTES ON LIMONIUM 67 
Yapp, I obtained a photograph of the original plant (preserved at 
Cambridge), cpeegeren by Babington, and collected in Portland by 
Prof. Henslow in 1832, and I find exactly the same species from 
the same locality i in the hertiarin of many correspondents. I have 
thus been enabled carefully to examine the plant in question, and 
I propose to endeavour to show that it may well be kept apart from 
our other British forms, and ons L. Dodartiit. 
The Rev. . Fox collected the Portland plant in 1872, and 
nomi specimens iT oon the Botanical Exchange Club; upon 
these examples Mr. oswell-Syme reported (Bot. Ex ch. Club 
Dep be "83 (1872-4) ) :—“ These specimens have the spikes eee 
reece oe ere but are certainly not the Continental S 
must have been some peculiarity of the season 
pore ipeoveened shat full development of the plants gathered by 
r. Fox. I fear there is some mistake about 8. Dodartit occurring 
in Portland; at all events, that it does not occur there now.” As 
exactly the same habit (dense spikes, &c.) is shown in specimens 
gathered in the years 1832 (Prof. Henslow’s first record), 1838, 
1868, 1875, 1876, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1889, and 1895, it would 
appear that this is the normal appearance ome the plant, and was 
not due to any i meri of season.’ 1866 Syme and 
T. B. Flower (see Eng. ed. 3, vii. 165) cearched for ook 
ton’s Dodartit in Path ok bit fod only the mn form which 
Prof. Babington unhesitatingly referred to S. “occidentalis; this 
probably was the cause of Syme’s last remark on Mr. Fox ’s plant. 
It is, however, pod possible that Syme and Flower never reached 
e exact spot on the Portland cliffs that produced the Statice 
Babington had noted, for Mr. J. W. White tells me that it grew 
over a very restricted area, and that the ordinary L. occidentale 
ay: 
fo me ta Fo a a description of the Portland plant, which I 
The 
asliaidaw to be n 
Limonium ‘reodrvent: Folia anguste obovato- i agin et 
petiolata, apice obtusa. Scapus rvbustus, asper, ramis erecto-paten 
tibus. Spice maxime densiflore, patentes, et grr oe erdui 
a @, approximate apice scapi . ramorum. Spicule seit 
as long as blades, apiculate or not; from 1 inch long by 2 lines 
— to 13 inches long by 4 lines wide; 1-veined, "al visible on 
wo other veins. a 
stout, thicker above than below, branched Sealy Below BH the middle 
ough occasionally near summit only. Branches short, ascending- 
spreading, either ail flowering or with few lower sterile. Branchlets ae : 
cales -acute, the lar; 2s 
very short or wanting. ‘ 
with long acuminate points; varying in size from 4 lines at 
