No. 89. STATICE. 9 



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The Spirea opulifolia^ a larger shrub, growing oa the 

 banks of streams, with trifid leaves and white corymbose 

 trigjnous blossoms, and commonlj called Ninebark^ has 

 nearly the same properties, and is an equivalent. I 

 have used the extract with equal success. It is chiefly 

 used by the herbalists in external applications for fomen- 

 tations, poultices, burns, mortification, swellings. If it 

 is the Sindesneni of the Osages (or is it Prinos ? or 

 Hydrangea?) it is also cathartic, febrifuge, sudorific^ 

 and anthelmintic j the roots, bark, and twigs are used 

 in asthma, colds, fevers, bowel complaints, &c. chiefly 

 in warm infusions. But many shrubs bear the name of 

 Nineback in the United States. 



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No. 89. STATICE CAROLINIANA. 



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Names. American Thrift. JFr. Statice d'Ameriquc. 

 Vulgar. Marsh Rosemary, Marsh Root, Seaside Thrift, 

 Inkroot, Sea Lavender. 



Classif. Fat Order of Staticea- Pentandria mono- 

 gyniaL. 



Genus Statice. Calyx monophyllous, scarious, and 

 plaited. Petals 5. Stamens 5, inserted on their claws. 

 One pistil, 5 styles- One seed, invested by the calyx. 



Sp- Statice carolinianu. Walter. Radical leaves pe- 

 tiolate cuneate obtuse, acutely mucronate, smooth and 

 flat : stem round panicled, flowers geminate, in unilate- 

 ral spikes. 



DESCRIPTION. Root perennial, large, fleshy, fu- 

 siform or branched, premose or obtuse, purplish brown. 

 Radical leaves, erect on long petioles, cuneiform, very 

 smooth^ with only one nerve, end broader obtuse, but 

 with an acute point, quite entire and flat on the margin. 

 Scapes round, smooth, one or two feet high, loosely pa- 

 nicled above, branches alternate, ramules unilateral, 

 pointing upwards, flowers the same at the ends of ^e 

 ramules, small, subsessile, each axillary to an ovate mu- 

 cronate scaly bract, commonly geminate, Ujpon a short 

 scaly and forked peduncle. Calyx funnel shaped^ 5 

 anHed, 5 teethed, angles ciliate. Petals blue, spatulate 



