2917.
STATICE rariflora.
Remote-flowered Sea Lavender.
PENTANDRIA Pentagynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, inferior., funnel
shaped, plaited, scarious above. Corolla 5-
parted. Capsule not bursting. Flowers spiked.
Spec. Char. Leaves oblong'-lanceolate, mucronate,
1-ribbed, faintly nerved. Scape branched from
below the middle; branches divided, panicled,
ascending or incurved; ultimate subdivisions
elongated, with unilateral rather distant flowers.
Segments of the calyx acute with intermediate
teeth. Outer bracts large.
Syn. Statice rariflora. Drejer FI. Hafn. 1-21. Hen-
frey in Phytol. v. 1.462 (with a figure). Bab.
Man. Brit. Bot. 245.
S. Limonium bahusiensis. Fries Nov.Fl. Suec. Mant.
1. 10. Mant. 2. 17. (excl. syn.)
S. Limonium y. Sm. Eng. FI. v. 2. 116.
S. Limonium /3. longifolia. Henf. in Phytol. v. 1.
463.
Limonium anglicum minus, caulibus rainosioribus,
floribus in spicis rarius sitis. Rail Hist. Plant,
v. 3. 247. Syn. ed. 3. 202.
rgi JL HIS beautiful plant, which had been confounded with
the Statice Limonium from the time of Ray and Dillenius,
was recalled to the attention of botanists by Mr. W. L. Not-
cutt, who found it “ on the shore between Wicker Hard and
Cams, on the border of Portsmouth Harbour,” and also !' by
the side of Fareham Creek, from half a mile to a mile below