NOTES ON LIMONIUM 71 
factorily the cliff-form (f. elongata) from the marsh plant (f. compacta) 
b acters he gives, or by any other 
I give below a description of L. occidentale, drawn up from a 
Wemination of Lloyd’s and G. E. Smith’s a with the help 
of fresh material from various parts of Englan 
IMONIUM OccIDENTALE O. Kuntze. Folia for orma et magnitudine 
maxime variabilia, nune anguste lanceolato-obovata nune late obo- 
vato-spathulata, apice acuta vel obtusa. Scapus gracilis a robus- 
tiusculus, plus minus levis. Rami omnes floriferi vel inferiores 
steriles, erecti vel erecto-patentes. Spice erect vel erecto-pa- 
tentes, longe angustse vel breviores et tunc crasse. Spicu 
plerumque laxius distiche, interdum sonmoese2 a tunc bracteis ex- 
terioribus contiguis sed non imbricatis. Bractea interior exteriore 
circiter duplo longior. Bractea media oacide longitudine vel 
eidem paulo brevior 
Plant very variable i in height, from 6 to 18 inches high. Leaves 
remarkably variable in size and shape, from narrowly lanceolate- 
Pipher to broadly obovate-spathulate ; from 1 to 4 cas ae long and 
from 2 to 74 lines wide (though rarely so wide), tapering to an acute 
or obtuse point (rarely almost rounded), apiculate or not ; petioles 
longer or shorter than blades; 1~3-veined (rarely 5). Scape 
slender or rather stout, smooth (usually tapering from the base 
upwards), branched at, below, or above the middle. Branches long 
or short, strictly ascending or more or less spreading, all flowe uring 
or lower sterile. Branchlets many or few. ae s triang 
acute, the larger ones with long — points; varying in size 
from 6 lines at base of scape to 1 line at su es never foliaceous. 
Spikes ascending or ascending- a long an 
loose-flowered or shorter, thicker and rather dense- Goiwersd. Spike- 
— but outer bracts of same ce never im sites Outer 
i-l§ ea long, sometimes tinged oy purple, — ibd 
an opaque my pierre d broad membran 
long, Serr or slightly Se — ae outer ea membrana 
bluntish 
g, not 
just ex Sioedine twice its length), sometimes tinged wi th purple, 
; orbicular- fomobl blong-) obovate, rounded at tip or lightly pointed, 
ie Aicsopincuses FR A a and ee pare Brea 
latter sometimes with dark lin way oe 
yo 
or less gi 
y (sometimes “afin 
agate chiefly on | 
irregularly so on the same cals veins of calyx-lobes = = 
acute, glabrous. | 
