1. AN INLAND ARMERIA OVERLOOKED IN BRITAIN Part 1

siderable taxonomic research in Britain, and several workers have attempted to recognise segregates. For example, as early as 1849, Babington described four species in an elaborate account, but later work has made it clear that these, and other segregates brought to notice later, cannot be accepted, and that the group exhibits a range of variation which deserves study on modem lines. The variants so far described fall into two broad groups:-the first of maritime plants scattered round the coast; the second of inland montane plants. Both groups include several variants which may be ecads, or of higher grade, but it is not proposed to discuss these here- the purpose of this paper is to draw attention to an inland lowland segregate of which the significance in the British flora has been overlooked since the first discovery of the plants more than two centuries ago. Since 1953, one of us (E.J.G.) has been much interested in an Armeria growing in the vicinity of Ancaster, South Lincolnshire, v.C. 53. In 1954, she sent a rooted plant to Dr. H. G. Baker, then of the University of Leeds, who is working on the group over a wider field. He provisionally determined to it be " A. maritima Willd. var. elongata Marsson » (nomenclature based on the treatment of the genus by Lawrence (1940)