70 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
The majority of our British forms of L. occidentale fall midway 
between Syme’s two segregates a and 8, and specimens named 
branched from near the base, with the branches long, ascending, 
less, with a scape unbranched near its base; the branches are 
shorter, more or less spreading, and do not overtop those above; 
sterile branches are absent, and the leaves are broader and mostly 
inted 
» however, an attempt is made to sort a large series of the 
various forms in this way, all the characters mentioned above must 
be prefixed by the word ‘‘ usually,” and the unsatisfactory nature 
of the arrangement soon becomes apparent. For instance, one 
would be at a loss to know where to place the Sea Lavender that 
grows in Glamorganshire, the scape of which is either branched at 
the base or near the summit only, and in which sterile branches 
has been strengthened by finding a specimen in Mr, F. 
Townsend’s herbarium labelled S$. occidentalis by Lloyd, from 
Morbihan, France, which would well come under the £ intermedia 
am unable, as 
