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STATICE LIMONIUM— ADDENDUM. 
J. FRASER ROBINSON. 
From observations that have been made during the past few 
years, and especially in i9i9-’20 and ’21, probably no 
extension, or very little, of the distribution of Statice Lim- 
onium is evident, although the number of plant in all the 
stations has greatly increased. In August, 1919, Mr. G. Cook 
came upon a clump or two of the Statice on the ‘ outstray 
south of the Common, just a few hundred yards east of the 
Oil Tanks, and the same, or slightly less, distance from the 
bridge that spans Hedon Haven. The present writer in- 
dependently found these clumps, with two or three additional 
ones, on 14th August, 1920. These were all of healthy, 
large-leaved plants growing among short and fairly well-eaten 
grass, and flowering well. Further round the bend of the 
Saltend embankment, on — or rather behind — -the west bank 
of Hedon Haven (? Mr. Petch’s station 'A’), on a strip of 
marshy grass land, intersected by a narrow dike (water) or 
two, Mr. J. W. Boult and the writer, on the same date, saw 
hundreds of plants (60 to 70 clumps of Statice were counted), 
again with large and broad leaves, flowering well amongst the 
dense grass ( ? chiefly Festuca). Dried specimens in the writer’s 
Herbarium measure 29 cms. from rootstock to tip of flowering 
panicles, the leaves being 15 cms. to 15-5 cms. in length, and 
2-5 to 3 cms. at their broadest part. 
No plants of Statice were seen on the muddy shores of 
Hedon Haven, but there was plenty of Aster Tripolium, type 
and variety discoideus, that claimed Mr. Petch’s special 
attention some years ago. 
The writer has not seen the Sunk Island station of Statice, 
from which, however, he has dried specimens in his Herbarium, 
being the first recorded by Mr. Petch in 1901. They are fine 
big plants, but slightly shorter than the Saltend specimens 
above mentioned, and with narrower leaves (2 cms. to 2-5 
cms . ) . 
Station ‘E,’ Welwick * Corner,’ is now one of the finest 
bits of saltmarsh or muddy foreshore on the Yorkshire side of 
the Humber, both as regards its extent — 800 yards or more in 
width from Welwick shore to low water mark of the estuary — 
and the richness of its flora. Plants of S. Limonium from this 
station were first seen by the writer, in the hands of the late 
Harvy Sheppard, F.E.I.S., who had just visited the Humber 
shore from Withernsea, September, 1910. When last visited, 
on 17th September, 1921, it afforded an interesting study of the 
maritime (? estuarine, which is slightly different) species of 
plants. A great growth of Marsh Samphire or Glass Wort 
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