LIMONIUM AUGUSTATUM (A. Gray).
Statice Brasiliense var. augustata A. Gray, Syn. FL 2: part I, 54. Perennial, slender, acaulescent ; leaves basal, few, the blades linear, 4-7 cm. long, cuspidate, 1-nerved, narrowed into petioles which are somewhat shorter than the blades, their bases dilated ; scapes erect, about 3 dm. tall, with several scale-like clasping bracts, sparingly branched above ; bracts subtending the flowers broadly oblong, 4 mm. long, acute ; calyx about 5 mm. long, the tube glabrous, the 5 teeth ovate, the connecting membranes eroded.
In salt marshes, Pine Key, Florida.
The best treatment of our North American Limonia that has thus far appeared is that by Dr. Gray in his Synoptical Flora, 2:
Part 1, 54 ; but one distinct species was there admitted as a variety and one was overlooked. (See page 491.) The plant just described is apparently rare and I. call attention to it hoping that some of the botanists of southern Florida may be able to find it and collect specimens. Heretofore it has been made a variety of Limomum Brasiliense (Boiss.) (Statice Brasilien sis Boiss.), but is readily distinguished by its more slender habit, the linear leaf-blades, the oblong acute bracts which subtend the flow ers, and the ovate calyx-segments.