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in its lower half, often not until near the corymbose top. Spikes 
short; spikelets densely imbricate. Fl. pm-plish. — Muddy salt 
marshes. P. VIL— IX. E. S. I. 
2. S. Bahisien 'sis (Fries) ; 1. oblong--lanceolate stalked mucro- 
/ nate 1-ribbed faintly veined, st. slightly angular usually branched 
from below the middle panicled, spikelets 1 — 3-flowered uni- 
lateral rather distant forming- lux erect or incurved spikes, cal.- 
segments acute denticulate vnih. intermediate teeth, outer bract 
pointed keeled on the back. — R. xvii. 1140. •S'. rarijlora Drej., 
E. B. S. 2917. — St. 6 — 18 in. high, not corymbose, much branched 
below. Spikes long ; spikelets often 1-flowered, not imbricate. 
Fl. pui-plish.— Muddy salt marshes. P. Vn. VIII. E. S. I. 
3. S. Dodart'ii (Gir.) ; 1. obovate-spathulate neiTowed into a 
broadly -ss-inged stalk 3-veined below, st. rigid vdth thick but 
not sterile branches, spikelets 2 — 4-tlowered densely imbricate 2- 
ranked forming linear thick suberect spilies, cal.-segments blunt 
entire without intermediate teeth. — JR. 1142. — St. usually not 
branched in its lower half ; branches often simple, short. Inner 
bracts obovate, very bkmt, with white margins or slightly pink. 
Fl. purple. Anth. linear. — Rockj' shores. Portland. P. VII. 
VIII. E. 
4. S. occidentdlis (Lloyd) ; 1. lanceolate-spathidate rather acute 
narrowed into a long winged stalk obscurely 3-veined below, 
scapes slender wavy forked branched from near the base, feu- 
lowest bra)2ches sterile, spikelets 2 — 4-flowered imbricate 2-raiLked 
fomiing linear s/e«(/er suberect spikes, cal.-se^ments blunt entire 
without intermediate teeth. — S. binervosa G. E. Sm., 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. 
—Rocky shores. P. VII. VlII. E. S. I. 
5. S. casp 'ia (Willd.) ; 1. obovate or lanceolate spathulate 
narrowed into a petiole, st, branched from near the base gTamdar- 
rough, branches many slender repeatedly and acutely forked umer- 
most alone bearing dense terminal spikes of 2— 3-flowered 2- 
ranked spikelets, cal.-segments ovate cuspidate denticulate. — 
iSl reticulata Sm., E. B. 328. — Remarkable by its much divided 
sterile branches which fork at an acute angle. L. small. — Muddy 
sea-shores of Norf and Sutf. P. VII. VIH. E. 
2. Arme'eia Willcl. Thrift. 
1. A. marit'ima (Willd.) ; I. linear \-veined, scape downy, inv.- 
bracts very blunt 1 — 3 outer ones mucronate, cal.-segments 
ticute, cal.-tube hair}' or pilose-striate. — L. all radical, many, 
narrow. Fl. rose-coloured or white. — a. A. maritirna (Boiss.) ; 
