ARMERIACEAE 1021 
1. LIMONIUM [Tourn.] Hil. Perennial seaside herbs with woody roots 
and a short leafy caudex which supports several leaves with thick entire blades. 
Flower-stem erect, nearly naked, branched. Flowers violet or lavender, solitary 
or 2 or 3 together subtended by several sedie like bracts. Calyx funn Dd 
or trumpet-shaped, persistent, 5-lobed, with teeth in the sinuses. Cor 
9-lobed, the tube very short. Utricle exserted from the calyx. [Statice a 
not L.]—About 120 species, widely distributed MS -sum. or all year S.— 
SEA-LAVENDERS. MARSH-ROSEMARYS. CANKER-ROOT 
Calyx-tube pubescent, E least at the bas 
Calyx 6-6.8 mm. long; lobes ‘ovate lanceolate, acuminate: a ML aman 
purs es 7 mm. IHE lobes deltoid-ovate, obtuse: panicle 
ngly branched. 2. L. obtusilobum. 
Calyx- d do BE rae or rarely with 1 2 hairs. 
Calyx- Runs broadly ovate-deltoid, Ta innermost bract- 
le se. 3. L.carolinianum. 
Calyx- lobes ovate-lanceolate to deltoid, acute: innermost 
bractlet acute. 4. L. angustatum. 
l. L. Nashii Small. Flowering stem 2-8.5 dm. tall, usually branched fro 
near the middle, bos branehes slightly zigzag: leaf- blades elliptic, elliptic- 
spatulate, or obovate, 5-18 em. long, obtuse 
to retuse: panie Hide ascending-spread- 
j m g or nearly 
or obsolete: a vio 4 
mm. long.—Beaches and co Yi salt- ORAGE, 
Fla. to Tex. and 8. C.—( Mz.) 
2. L. obtusilobum Blake. slower i stem 
about 3 dm. tall, mostly branched t the 
ns bra blades oblanceolate- num 3.5— 
ong, mueronate and acute: Pune 
branches ending: . outermost  braetlet 
about 1 oes ng: ealyx pubescent on the 
ribs up Tw the middle: the teeth du the lobes ovate-deltoid, entire: corolla 
pale-violet: capsule about 3 mm. long.—Salt-marshes, N Fla 
L. carolinianum (Walt.) Britton. piu stem 2— - us tall: leaf-blades 
spatulate to elliptic or redes -elliptie, 5—17.5 cm. long, retuse or obtuse, some- 
times rz ud panicle-branches ascendin ng: outermost a t rhombie-ovate, 
mostly 1.5-2 mm. lon res calyx 4.5-5.5 mm. long, the teeth between the lobes 
ovate to lanceolate, coy half as long as m HUN “corolla lavender: capsule 
1 Boi L. brasil 
mostly 5-6 lon ng. [S. brasiliensis A. Gray not rastlvense 
Small Salta vue; meadows, and dunes, near the Tue) "Fla. to N. C.— 
(Mez.) 
L. angustatum (A. Gray) Small. Flowering stem a 6 dm. tall: leaf- blades 
e narrowly spatulate to narro ied elliptic, 5-8.5 em. long, obtuse or some- 
times cuspidate: panicle-branches ascending: o utermost bractlet ovate: calyx 
5.5-6.5 mm. long, the teeth between the lobes minute: corolla lavender: capsule 
about 7 mm. long. [S. 5 bar Cha Fl.) ]—Salt-marshes along the 
coast, Fla. to Tex. and N. C. 
2. PLUMBAGO L. Perennial caulescent hammock herbs with somewhat 
woody, often greatly elongate stems and alternate leaves. Flowers in terminal 
