NOTES ON LIMONIUM 69 
other place, a upon a rh cliffe going from the towne of 
Margate downe to the upon the left hand.” There are 
specimens of this plant ve ‘the Briteh Museum collected by Samuel 
e at Dover in 1718, and at Ramsgate in 1721; but they are 
forms of the same shh Hi and both L. occidentale. There is also a 
specimen of L. occidentale in Herb. Rand at the British Museum, 
la belled Limonium parvum, with the ee ‘‘ Beach below seine 
mse Rand died in 1748. In 1829 it was wr ain noted in Ken 
by the Rev. G. E. Smith (Cat. Pl. 8. ‘King: . 18, t. 2), whi 
duecribed and figured it from that coast, identifying it with S. 
cordata Willd. (Sp. Plant.), Te contrasting it carefully with 9. 
Limonium, with which, up to that time, it had evidently been 
confounded. In 1881 G. EH. Smith discovered that his plant was 
certainly not the cordata of Willdenow and re-named it S. binervosa, 
and gave an excellent account and plate of it be Eng. Bot. Supp. 
(t 2663) published in that year, ee not only with 9. 
oe oar with nearer allied s 
I . Lloyd, his Flore ie ‘la Loire-Inférieure, described 
what ae co sidered a w Statice, under the name occidentalis, from 
the rocks of Risa soabut ‘h i Taito t, Belle-Ile. The description given 
is somewhat brief and no = differences mentioned between it 
and other allied forms. I have seen specimens of Lloyd’s plant at 
Kew and elsewhere, and there i i no doubt that his occidentalis and 
— binervosa represent the same species 
It is to be regretted that the specific name binervosa cannot be 
siteined for this plant under the genus Limonium, as Smith's 
description, seattle antedating Lloyd's, is far more detailed ; but 
Dr. Otto Kuntze has already ag oe the name occidentale. 
Syme (Eng. Bot. ed. 8, vii. 163) arranges this sani as follows : 
S. binervosa G. BE. Smith, with segregates, a occidentalis Lloyd; 
B intermedia; y Dodartii Gir. Of occidentalis he says, ‘ 
branched often from below the middle; lower branches seme 
sterile; spikes ascending “dh erect, rather slender 
variety 8 intermedia he wri ‘*‘ Scape branched from the middle 
or from above the middle, mnt below it; rarely a few of the lower 
branches sterile; spikes spreading or spreading-ascending, 
Corbiére (Fl. Normand. 480 (1894) ) notes that S. occidentalis 
varies greatly, and remarks that when growing on cliffs it is slender, 
with a rather narrow lax panicle (f. elongata), whilst the sandy or 
salt-marsh plant is sieribe thick-set, with a spreading panicle, 
almost a corymb a). 
er first ee etree inclined to retain the variety intermedia 
of Syme (f. compacta of Corbiére—they are evidently synonyms), 
pi aiteunpted to place under it, by the help = Sipe’ s characters. 
numerous specimens from various parts of Britain; 
e 
variation of branching, sterility, or angle 0: : 
and, short of a plan of describing individuals, - fouiia it imple 
to keep the variety apart. 
