Winch’s FI. of Northumb. and Durh. p. 54.— Jacob’s West Devon and Cotrnw. 
FI. — Mack. Catal of PI. of Ire), p. 73. ; F). Hibern. pt. i. p. 141. — Aster mari- 
timus cceruleus Tripolium dictus, Ray's Syn. p. 175. — Tripolium vulgare 
tnajus et minus , Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 413. —Eurybia maritima, Gray’s Nat. 
Arr. v. ii. p. 464. 
Localities.— On the muddy sea coast, and in salt-marshes, plentifully.— 
Cambridgesh. Shire Drain, below Wisbeach ; and in the ditch on the left hand 
side of the road leading from Wisbeach to Tydd Gote. — Cheshire ; Wallasey 
Pool, Eastham, and elsewhere on the shores of the Mersey : Mr. H. C. Watson, 
in N. B. G. — Cornwall ; Shore, abundantly; and very fine in the clefts of 
rocks about the Logan stone ; ibid. — Devon ; Common on the coast and in salt- 
marshes: FI. Devon. On the South shore of the Teign, near Combe Cellars: 
B. Botfield, Esq. ; and in small bays opposite, near to Brookfield House: Dr. 
Withering .— Dorset; Frequent in the salt-marshes : Dr. Poi.teney. — Dur- 
ham; Jarrow : It. Bowman, in N. B. G. Sea-coast and salt-marshes on Tyne, 
Wear, and Tees : N. J. W inch. Esq. — Essex; Near Walton : Mag. Nat. Hist. 
— Gloucestersh. Avon about Bristol: Rev. H. T. Ellicombe. — Hants ; Com- 
mon on the coast: Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. Near Southampton : Mr. T. W. 
WEAVEn. Brading, Isle of Wight: Dr. Bostock. — Kent ; Salt-marshes near 
Faversham, plentifully: E. Jacob, Esq. Marshes between Greenwich and 
Woolwich: FI. Metrop. Marshes about Erith : Mrs. Gawlf.r. River side 
near Rochester: FI. Metrop. — Lancash. Dickenson’s Dingle and Garston, 
near Liverpool : Dr. Bostock. — In Norfolk : Miss Bell. — Northumberland ; 
On the sea-coast and in salt-marshes on Tweed, Ain, Blyth, and Tyne: N. J. 
Winch, Esq. — In Somersetshire : Dr. Gappeh, in N. B. G. — Staffordshire ; 
Near Shirley Wich; in a meadow between the Trent and the Canal: Dr. 
Stokes. — Suffolk ; Breydon: J. PAOET n in N. B. G. — Surrey ; On the banks 
of the Thames, a little above high-water mark, on the way between Richmond 
and Kew: E. K. in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. i. p. 83. — In Sussex: Rev. G. E. 
Smith, in N. B. G. — W ALES. Anglesey : Muddy sea coasts, not uncommon: 
Rev. H. Davies.— Denbighsh. North coast, not common : J. E. Bowman, Esq. 
in N. B. G. — Merionelhsh. Near the mouth of a little stream on the Barmouth 
side of Glandwr: H. Wooli.combe, Esq. — SCOTLAND. Salt-marshes on the 
sea-coasts, plentiful: Sir W. J. Hooker, — IRELAND. Salt-marshes, fre- 
quent: Mr. J. T. Mackay. 
Perennial. — Flowers in August and September. 
Root of many long, tough fibres. Stem from 6 inches to 2 or 3 
feet high, usually upright, round, striated, smooth, leafy, branched. 
Leaves very smooth, fleshy, entire, obscurely 3-nerved ; those from 
the root stalked, elliptic-oblong, tapering at each end ; those on the 
stem alternate, sessile, strap-spear-shaped, smaller. Flowers in 
leafy, corymbose clusters, varying in number, slightly scented. 
Involucrum imbricated, shortish, cylindrical ; scales in 2 or 3 un- 
equal rows, short, egg-shaped, blunt, scored, green and brown, 
with reddish-brown tips, and membranous edges. Florets of the 
ray spreading, elliptic-oblong, 3-toothed at the extremity, of a 
bluish-lilac, seldom white; usually numerous, but occasionally, as 
in the specimen figured, only 3 or 5, and sometimes entirely want- 
ing, as is the case with a variety found in the Isle of Wight. Seeds 
oblong, compressed, fringed at the edges. Pappus reddish, mi- 
nutely rough, (see fig. 6). Lowermost scales of the involucrum less 
decidedly spreading than in any other species. 
Dr. Withering says that this plant is not unfrequently gathered and sold 
for samphire, either by mistake, or from its being collected without hazard ; but 
it is supposed not to possess the like detersive qualities. 
According to the observations of Linn.eus, goats and horses eat it ; cows and 
swine refuse it ; sheep are not fond of it. 
The drawing for the accompanying Plate was made from a plant which 
flowered in the Oxford Garden last Autumn (1836). It was procured from a 
boggy place near Southampton, in July of the same year, and kindly commu- 
nicated to me by Mr. T. W. Weaver, gardener to the Rev. the Warden of 
Winchester College ; to w hom I am also indebted for some other plants froiq 
the same locality. See folio ‘203, a. 
