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leathery. Inner bracts roundish about twice as long as the outer, with bright 
red band and membranous margin. Anth. oblong.— Rocks, Aldemey, ilr C. R, 
P. Andrews. P. VII. VIII.] 
4. S. binervosa (G. E. Sm.) ; 1. lanceolate-spathulate rather 
acute narrowed into a long winged stalk obscurely 3-veined 
belaw, scapes slender wavy forked branched from near the 
base, few lou'tst hraiiches sterile, spikelets 2 — 4-flowered 
imbricate 2-ranked forming linear slender suberect spikes, 
cal. -segments blunt entire without intermediate teeth. — 
E. B. S. 2663. — St. usually branching quite from the base ; 
branches repeatedly forked, long, often rough. Inner bracts 
oval with broad membranous edge, deeply tinged with pink. 
Anth. oval. — /S. intermedia (Syme) ; all the branches flower- 
ing, spikelets stouter. — Rocky shores. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
5. S. hellidifdlia (DC.) ; 1. obovate or lanceolate-spathulate 
narrowed into a petiole, st. branched from near the base 
granular-rough, branches many slender repeatedly and acutely 
forked uppermost alone bearing dense terminal spikes of 2 — 
3-flowered 2-ranked spikelets, cal. -segments ovate cuspidate 
denticulate. — E. B. 328. S. caspia (Willd,). — Remarkable by 
its much divided sterile branches which fork at an acute 
angle. L. small. — Muddy sea-shores of Xorf ., and at Frieston, 
Line. P. VII. VIII. E. 
2. Arme'ria Willd. Thrift. 
1. A. marit'ima (Willd.) ; linear. 1-veined, inv.-bracts very 
blunt 1 — 3 outer ones mu'cronate, cal.-segments acute, cal.- 
tube hairy or pilose-striate. — L. all radical, many, narrow. 
Fl. rose-coloured or white. — a. L. flattish above very slender 
1-veined. A. maritima (Boiss.), A. pubescens Link. — ji. plani- 
folia (Syme) ; 1. nearly flat above broadly linear blunt, early 
1. 3-veined. Sy. E. B. 1153. — 7- A. dnrinscxda (Bab.); 1. 
subtriquetrous channelled above very slender 1-veined. A. 
puhigera and A. dtn-inscula Bab. A small form with linear 
flat 1-veined 1. but a pubescent scape from Shetland may be 
A. sibirica (Turcz.). — ^luddy and rocky sea-shores, also on 
mountains. /3. Scottish Highlands, Ben Lawers ! 7- Southern 
sea-shore. P. IV.— IX. E. S. L 
[A. playttagin'ea (Willd.); I. 3 — ^-veined linear-lanceolate 
with a narrow membranous margin, scapes rough, outer inv.- 
bracts triangular or lanceolate cuspidate, others ovate or 
obovate with a broad membranous margin blunt, cal,-segm. 
with long points. — E. B. S. 2928. — Distinguished by its leaves. 
—Jersey. P. VL VIL] 
