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interesting that Kamik and Pomo have this Statice in common 
(which is wanting in the other islands), notwithstanding the great 
difference of the stone. This applies to Atropis rupestris , which, 
with the hybrid Centaurea pomoensis (C. crithmifolia Vis. x Fri- 
derici Vis.), was described by A. Teyber, who gives a figure of the 
grass, in Osterr. bot. Zeit. 1911, 457. 
Explanation of Plate 567. 
1. Statice vestita C. E. Salmon. (a) from Pomo; ( b ) from 
Kamik; 2, outer bract; 3, middle bract; 4, inner bract; 5, calyx— 
all enlarged four times. 
THE CAULESCENCE OF BELLIS PERENNIS. 
By C. C. Lacaita, M.A., F.L.S. 
Few species have been worse treated by botanists than the 
ubiquitous Daisy. Linnsjeus’s definition is Beilis scapo nudo, nothing 
more. This is obviously wide enough to include the very different 
Beilis silvestris Cir., to which the synonym of Dodoens quoted by 
Linnaeus should probably be referred. Beilis annua , the only other 
Linnean daisy, is then defined as Beilis caule subfolioso , the distinc¬ 
tion clearly implying that B. perennis is stemless, as on a superficial 
view it seems to be, and as it is described in many floras. 
It will make matters clearer to point out that B. annua is always 
annual and usually very obviously caulescent; B. silvestris is perennial 
and hardly, if at all, caulescent; B. perennis is perennial and caules¬ 
cent, for it always possesses a stem (not to be confused with the 
rhizome), although in the common English plant the internodes of 
the stem are exceedingly short and the peduncles look like radical 
scapes. 
The earliest hint of the caulescence of B. perennis that I have 
been able to trace is in Relhan’s FI. Cant. 321 (1785)—“ scapi uni- 
flori, interdum subfoliosi.” Caulescence has been regarded by the 
later authors who have mentioned it as an occasional, rather excep¬ 
tional, feature. It has sometimes been treated as a variation without 
a name; sometimes as a variety with a name ; sometimes as consti¬ 
tuting a distinct species, such, for instance, as B. integrifolia DC. in 
Lam. Diet, or as B. hybrida Ten. By most of such authors the 
flowering peduncles have been wrongly described as axillary, or some¬ 
times as axillary and terminal. Again the rhizome and stem have 
been frequently confused; Babington speaks of the rhizome as 
equivalent to a stem; Rouy says that the stems are short and almost 
always subterranean, only allowing a partially aerial stem to “ var. 
caulescensA 
These statements are partly due to superficial and careless observa¬ 
tion, partly to the extremely artificial conditions of life under which 
the daisy is usually seen on our lawns, where it is deformed by con¬ 
tinual mowing and rolling. Freely growing B. perennis is by no 
means so plentiful or so luxuriant in England as it is in those districts 
