22 WILD FLOWERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 
(2) Few-flowered Sea-Lavender. (Limonium humile.) — Spikelets remote from one another, 
whole flower-cluster looser and longer ; leaves narrower and pointed. 
Calyx 5-lobed, without intermediate teeth ; leaves not veined from the midrib to the margin. 
(3) Rock Sea-Lavender. (Limonium binervosum.) — Spikelets densely packed together, 
cluster loose and long, all the branches flowering ; leaves small. 
(4) Matted Sea-Lavender. (Limonium bellidifolium.) — Spikelets dense but few, cluster very 
long, the branches starting from the base, zigzag, the lower ones not flowering ; leaves 
small. 
1. Common Sea-Lavender. (Limonium vulg’&re. Miller.) — As just described. The 
flowers are of a bluish-lilac colour, with a green bract coloured at the edge below each flower, in 
T-3-flowered spikelets arranged in 2 rows in dense, short, spreading, spike-like branches near the 
top of an angular leafless stalk (scape) 6-r2 inches or more high; the membranous calyx-tube 
separates into 5 lobes, with 5 minute intermediate teeth. The leaves are in tufts, all from the 
root, and are 2-6 inches or more long, oblong, entire, smooth, and fleshy, with a short point 
at the tip and narrowing into a long stalk at the base ; they have a prominent midrib and are 
strongly veined from the midrib to the margins (pinnately), though, owing to the fleshiness of the 
leaves, the side veins are not visible in fresh specimens. ( Statice Limonium. Linn.) [ Plate 7. 
Common on muddy sea-coasts in England and Ireland, and in eastern Scotland. July — November. 
Perennial. 
2. Remote-flowered Sea-Lavender. (Limonium humile. Miller.)— A very similar 
species to the last, by some botanists regarded merely as a variety. The spikelets are often only 
1 -flowered and are distant from one another instead of being packed closely together, while the 
whole cluster is looser, the stem not quite so angular, and the branches of it longer. The leaves 
are narrower and more pointed. ( Statice Bahusiensis. Fries. ; Statice rariflora. Drejer.) 
Less common than the preceding species, growing with it in similar situations. July — November. 
Perennial. 
3. Rock Sea-Lavender. (Limdnium binervosum. C. E. Salmon.)— A species 
resembling the Common Sea-Lavender (Limonium vulgare), but having rather larger flowers of a 
darker bluish-purple, clustered more densely together up each individual branch, but arranged in 
a looser and much longer cluster, the branches starting from near the base of the stem and the 
lowest branches bearing no flowers ; the calyx-lobes without the intermediate teeth ; the leaves 
with long stalks, much smaller, lance-shaped (obovate), narrowing at the base into the stalk 
(spathulate), and sometimes showing a vein on each side of the midrib parallel to it, but never 
veined from the midrib to the margin (pinnate). ( Statice binervis. Syme ; Statice intermedia. 
Syme ; Statice Dodartii. Gir. ; Statice auriculcefolia. Vahl ; Limonium occidentale. 0 . Kuntze.) 
Limonium recurvum. C. E. Salmon is a very similar species, but bearing flowers on all 
the branches of the flower-cluster and with inversely egg-shaped leaves, found only on cliffs 
in Portland Island. 
Not uncommon. On rocks and cliffs by the sea, in the south of England, extending to Lincoln- 
shire on the east coast and to Cumberland on the west, in Scotland only found on the west 
coast up to the Mull of Galloway, and in Ireland sparingly distributed over the whole coast. 
July — August. Perennial. 
4. Matted Sea-Lavender. (Limonium bellidifolium. Dum.)— A somewhat similar 
plant to the last — the Rock Sea-Lavender (Limonium binervosum) — but with much smaller, pale 
lilac-coloured flowers ; the flowering stem rough and much branched almost from the base 
