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PENTANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Spzcies. 1.8. Armeria. (Thrift, Sea Gilliflower. ) 
LimoniuM. Flowers scattered, upon a paniculated 
or spiked scape, or leafy stem. 
Species. 2. caroliniazna. (American Sea Lavender.) 
Apparently a mere variety of S. Limonium. ‘The leaf is 
obovate-lanceolate, mucronate below the apex, entire and 
veinless; the scape alternately and numerously branched, 
ramuli corymbose, teeth of the calix acute, flowers of an 
elegant blue, each subiended by 2 very unequal bractes. 
This numerous genus of near 50 species is principally 
indigenous to the sea-coasts of the south of Europe, ex- 
‘tending into Barbary, Egypt, Siberia and Lesser Asia, 
there are also 5 species at the Cape of Good Hope, in the 
299. LINUM. L. (Flax.) 
Calix 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5, ungui- 
culate. Capsule superior, 10-valved, 10-celiéd. 
Seed solitary. (Filaments of the stamina united 
at the base.) 
Herbaceous and suffruticose; leaves mostly alternate; 
flowers solitary, axillary, or rarely coming out opposite 
the leaves, at the summit corymbose, racemose or dis- 
_ Species. 1. L. wsitatissimum, Scarcely naturalized. 
2. perenne. (L. Lewisii, Pursh.) On cultivating both in 
the same garden, } have not been able todetect any spe- 
cific difference betwixt the European and American 
plant. That of the Missouri was, however, smaller, and 
the seeds of a paler colour. Has. Commencing about 
Fort Mandan, and becoming more abundant towards the 
mountains; growing on the declivities of water courses. “ 
3. virginicum. ‘Throughout the Atlantic states, and in 
Upper Louisiana. 4. rigidum. Oxs. Stem rigid, angular, 
grooved; leaves subsetaceous, short, and erect; margin 
of the calix leaves glandulously ciliate; petals cuneate-ob- 
' long; seed pale brown.—Haz. Around Fort Mandan. 
inches high, flowers pale yellow. 5. striatum. 
_ Phe remainder of this extensive genus, with the excep- 
tion of 3 species in tropical America, 1 in New Zealand, 
_ and 3 at the Cape of Good Hope, is indigenous to Europe, 
“principally to the south, extending also into Barbary and - 
the Leyant. : 
