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S T AT IC E binervosa.
Dwarf Sea-Lavender.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 1 leaf, funnel-shaped, plaited,
filmy. Pet. 6. Seed single.
Spec. Char. Leaves spathulate, three- or five-nerved
below, coarsely reticulate above; a variable
mucro beneath the point. Panicle branched;
branches secund, angular in front, rounded behind.
Calyx-ribs terminated about the base of
the five, blunt, membranous segments.
Syn. Statice cordata. Smith PI. of S. Kent, 18. t. 2.
f % 4, 6, 7.
S. spathulata. Hook. Brit. FI. 145.
S. oletefolia. Decand. FI. Fr. (1805). 3. 422 ?
S. Limonium (3. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 116.
Limonium minus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 202.
L. parvum. Ger. Em. 411. ƒ.
T h e leaves of S. Limonium {Engl. Bot. t. 102) being
early pronounced nerveless,” and superficially appearing
so, the distinctive character to be gained from them
was long overlooked. Thence arose the union of S. Limonium
with the well defined species before us, which is not
uncommon upon the sides, of chalk cliffs along our southern
coast, flowering from June to September, and may, probably,
so occur in the Isle of Wight. Gerarde reports its being
found at Margate ; Ray at Harwich : it is the S. reticulata
said in the Botanist’s Guide to be found at Dover; and
We are informed in Hooker’s British Flora, that it is the
plant formerly taken for S. reticulata at the Mull of Gallo