STATICE. AKMEEIA. 281 



branched in its lower half ; branches often simple, short. Inner 

 bracts obovate, very blunt, with white margins or slightly pink. 

 Fl. purple. Ajath. linear.^-E,ockv shores. Portland. P. VII. 



vm. ^ E. 



4. S. occidentdUs (Lloyd) ; 1. lanoeolate-spathulate rather acute 

 narrowed info a long winged stalk obscurely 3-veined below, 

 scapes 'slender wavy forked branched from near the basb,/e!0 

 lowest branc/ies sterile, spikelets 2 — 4-flowered imbricate 2-ranked 

 forming linear slender saherect sjji^es, cal.-segmentsblimt entire 

 vyithout intfermediate teeth. — 8. Unervosa Or. E. Snl., E. B. S. 

 2663. — St. usually branching quite from the base ; branches re- 

 peatedly forked, long, often roug-h. Inner bracts oval With broad 

 membranous edge, deeply tinged with pink. Anth. oval. — Rocky 

 shores. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



6. S. cois'pia (Willd.) ; 1. obovate or lanceolate spathulate 

 narrowed into a petiole, st. branched from near the base granular- 

 rough, brandies many slender repeatedly and acutely forked lipper- 

 most alone bearing dense terminal ' spikes of 2 — S-flowered 2- 

 ranked spikelets, cal.-segments ovate cuspidate denticulate. — S. 

 reticulata Sm. — Remarkable by its much divided sterile braliiches 

 which fork at an acute angle. L. small. — Muddy sea-shores of 

 Norf. and Suff.j'and at Friestom, Line. ' P. VII. Vin. E. 



2. Aeme'eia Willd. Thrift. 



I. A. moWfiHia (Willd.); Z. Z8Hea?-l-!;ej«e<i, scape downy, inv.- 

 bracts very^ bluiit 1^3 outer one^ mucronate^ cal.-seg-ments 

 acute,- oal.-tube hairy or pUose-striate.' — L. aU radical, many, 

 naiTOW. Fl. rose-coloured or white. — a. A. maritima (Boiss.) ; 

 1. flattish above blunt,'inv.-scales broadly green on the back outer 

 ones ovate-mucrona,te, cal.-tube imifonnly hairy equalling the 

 primary pedicel, it. xvii. 1148. — fi. A. jmhescens (lAnk); 1. 

 nattish above often acute, inv.-scales broadly gTeen on the back 

 outer ones' triangular-Qvate acute, cal.-tube hairy on the ribs 

 otherwise glabrous equalling the primary pedicel. Statide Ar- 

 meria Sm. Pedicels shorter in the- iuoimtaiu jplant. — y. A. 

 pubigera 13. scotica (Boiss.); 1. subtriquetrous channelled and 

 dotted above, inv.-scales scarious a little thickened on the back, 

 cal.-tube uniformly" hairy twice as long as the primary pedicel. 

 — S. A. duriuscula' (Bab.) ; 1. subtriquetrous channelleQ above, 

 inv.-scales broadly green on the back, cal.-tube only hauy on the 

 ribs equalling the primaiy pedicel. — Muddy and rocky sea-shores. 

 /3. also on moimtains. S. rare. P. 1\. — IX. ^ E. S. I. 



\_A, plantagin'ea (WiUd.); I. all similar 3 — !b-i-eined hnear- 

 lanceolate with a narrow membranous margin, scapes glabrous 

 rough, outer inv. -bracts triangular or lanceolate cuspidate others 



