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Armeria (According to some authors)

According to some authors, the number of species of this genus is upwards of fifty: while others reduce the number to six or seven. The genus is mostly represented in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. To the species described on pp. 113-4, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. caespitosa (tufted). fl. pale lilac, in small heads; involucral leaflets brownish; scape pubescent. Summer. l. very short, narrow-linear, triquetrous, rigid, recurved. h. 1in. to 2in. Mountains of Spain, 1885. The smallest of the Thrifts. (R. G. 1192, f. 2.)