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truly corymbose, its principal branches curving horizontally or 
downwards, ultimate subdivisions very short and quite covered 
with closely-placed subimbricate flowers. Several of the lower 
bracts often empty, inner ones white at the membranous margin. 
— Muddy salt marshes. P. VII. VIII. Sea Lavender. 
2. S. rariflora (Drej.!) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate stalked mucro- 
nate 1 -ribbed faintly nerved, scape branched from below the 
middle, tranches divided panicled ascending or incurved, ultimate 
subdivisions elongated with unilateral rather distant fl., cal. -seg- 
ments acute denticulate with intermediate teeth, bracts obtuse 
outer ones large. — Drejer Fl. Hafn. — Quite different in habit 
from the preceding. Panicle much less divided, not corymbose, 
branches all ascending, ultimate ones much lengthened. Fl. con- 
siderably separated, not at all imbricated. Margin of the bracts 
tinged with pink. Probablv S. Limonium y. Sm. — Near the sea. 
England and coast of Galloway. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
3. S. spathulata (Desf.) ; I. spathulate narrowed into a broadly 
winged stalk mucronate behind the point 3-ribbed below, scape 
branched from below the middle, branches divided panicled as- 
cending, ultimate subdivisions elongated with closely-placed 2- 
ranked^., cal. -segments blunt entire without intermediate teeth. — 
S. binervosa G. E. Smith. E. B. S. 2663. — See some valuable 
observations by Mr. W. Wilson in Hook. Br. Fl. — Rockv shores. 
P. VII. VIII. 
4. S. reticulata (L.) ; 1. spathulate narrowed into a flat stalk 
mucronate behind the point " 3-ribbed below," scape panicled 
almost from the base with numerous slender zigzag repeatedly 
divided branches of which the lower are barren, fl. in small secund 
terminal dense spikes, cal.-segments acute denticulate. — E. B. 328. 
— L. very small. St. remarkably divided and interlacing. — 
Muddy salt marshes. Norfolk. P. VII. E. 
2. Armeria Willd. 
1. A. plantaginea (Willd.?); I. linear -lanceolate 2 — S-nerved, 
scape glabrous minutely tubercular, head roundish, outer invo- 
lucral bracts cuspidate, intermediate obtuse mucronate, inner 
broadly obtuse, cal.-segments acuminate-aristate. — A. alliacea 
R. Icon. t. 966.— Jersey. P. VI. VII. O. 
2. A. maritima (Willd.) ; I. linear blunt \-nerved, scape dorony, 
head roundish, involucral bracts very obtuse 1 — 3 outer ones mu- 
cronate, cal.-segments acute. — Statice Arm,eria Sm. E. B. 226. 
— L. very narrow, glabrous or downy. The var. alpina is not 
distinguishable being only more constantly downy. — Sea-shore 
and mountain-tops. P. VII. VIII. Thrift. 
