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STATICE LIMONIUM ON THE NORTH BANK 
OF THE HUMBER. 
T. PETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 
( Continued from page 12). 
Attempts were made to identify these giant forms with 
some other species, but they proved to be undoubtedly Statice 
Limonium. 
Station C. — No Statice has been observed on the Cherry 
Cob Sands outstray. A similar outstray extends along the 
older part of Sunk island from Stone Creek for a short distance 
eatswards. It is slightly higher than the Cherry Cob Sands 
outstray, and is flooded only at the highest spring tides. 
A few non-flowermg plants of Statice were observed on this 
area in August, 1902. 
Station D. — -This is the strip of saltmarsh left outside the 
bank at the last reclamation on Sunk Island. In 1902 it 
was nowhere more than ten yards wide, and ran along the foot 
of the bank for about a mile. It was then typical low-level 
estuarine saltmarsh, chiefly with Aster Tripolium, and a few 
normally-developed plants of Statice Limonium widely scat- 
tered over the whole length. They were similar to the plants 
from the next locality. 
Station E. — This is the small saltmarsh, lying to the east 
of the Patrington Haven Channel, in the angle between the 
Patrington and Welwick banks, open to the south, but pro- 
tected on the west by the last enclosure on Sunk Island. It 
was described by Mr. T. Stamforth in The Naturalist for July, 
1912. Its lower edge passes into bare mud flat which is 
submerged at almost every tide. A narrow strip along the 
foot of the embankment was covered with grass and Juncus, 
but nearly the whole of the area (in 1902) was low-level 
i saltmarsh. A tide, 7 ft. 6 O.D. at Hull, just reached the 
outer edge in 1903. The area was estimated at two acres in 
August, 1902. Mr. Stainforth, writing in 1912, did not give 
the area at that time, but as he states that the marsh is only 
flooded at extremely high tides, it would appear that the level 
has risen considerably. 
In August, 1902, over thirty clumps of Statice Limonium 
were counted, scattered over the whole area, but chiefly in the 
upper half. The plants were well grown and normally 
developed, with panicles up to 30 cm. high. The leaves 
varied from 10 to 18 cm. in length, and from 2 to 3.5 cm. in 
width ; the tips were in nearly all cases terminal. The 
thickness of the leaf was 400 to 430^. 
Station F. — From Welwick to Easington no Statice was 
observed in 1902-04. Between Easington and Kilnsea there 
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