68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
of scape to 1 line at summit, never foliaceous. Spikes usually sub- 
sessile, Jb peste dense-flowered and sto ut, ascending-spreading, 
horizontal and arcuate-recurved, very congested at ends of branches 
~ and eens often forming a cross; spikes conspicuously pointed in 
bud. Spikelets 1-8-flowered (with often one of the flowers rudi- 
mentary), arranged very regularly and closely in two rows, and so 
compressed that the outer bracts of the same row are distinctly 
rien Outer bract 14-1} lines sons broadly ovate-acute, with 
n opaque central portion and broad membranous margin ; — 
often with dark line near Bates part. "Middle bract 13-13 li 
long, always falling short of outer bract, membranous, Seales 
oblong, tip bluntish toothed or bilobed, 2-veined, one much the 
stronger. Inner bract 24-24 lines long, never aeioushins twice 
the length of the outer bract and usually only half as long 55 gr 
broadly oblong-obovate, rounded at tip or slightly pointed, with 
opaque central portion and broad membranous margin ; fies 
sometimes with dark line near opaque part. Bracteole 14-17 lines 
long, usually one less in number than the flowers in a spikelet, 
membranous, narrowly obovate-oblong, tip slightly bifid or toothed, 
bluntish, more or less gibbous with one non-central vein. Calyx 
spar hairy in the lower portion with appressed hairs, otherwise 
oo hensst veins of calyx-lobes long and acute. 
L. recurvum may be easily recognized by the very stout and 
robust “appenraace of scape and spikes, by the latter being very 
spreading and arcuate, and by the leaves being always rather small 
and narrow, long- Stale a bluntly pointed. From L. Dodartii 
it may be distinguished ey its narrow rang spreading, horizontal, 
and recurved spikes; from L. occidentale by its robust paste stout 
scape, _. dense sents spikes ; and from both by its bra 
The original habitat in Portland Island appears me NEE A 
to be oe destroyed. Mr. J. W. White kindly visited the locality 
for me seni bei he had in previous years collected it, 
and rebiatind tha uarrying firm had eet totally destroyed 
the cliff-face aes the plant oes ke grow e no 
signs of a single example. This is much to . goeretents: as, with 
the exception of a Mas F doubtful efery in the herbar : 
Bennett, collected by Mr. J. E. Griffith on the cone “of Angloses, 
Portland is the cy locality from which I have seen L. recurv 
It is to be hoped that it may be rediscovered on pene part of ‘the 
° cliffs, or in other localities on our coasts; but I have 
failed to discover specimens of it from the coast of France, cee 
Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, or Sweden, in variou 
European herbaria examined. 
We next come to the species L. occidentale O. — to the 
ore of which so many names have been given by various authors 
ee is particularly puzzling from its variabilit 
British t—or indeed as a separate species a ¢ all—this 
wii to ha ve been first noticed by Gerard (Herbal 388) as early 
as 1597, who figures the plant, calls it Limonium parvum (Rocke 
lavender), and says: ‘“ The smal kinde I could never finde in any 
