142 PENTANDRIA.— HEXAGYNIA. 



HAB. Low fertile woods. Shrub 8 — 12 ft. high* 

 very prickly ; pan. very large, term. 



223. STATICE. Thrift. Plumbaginecs. 



1. S. Armeria: scape simple, terete, capitate; leaves 



linear, flat. 

 HAB. Sea-shore. U- Leav. all rad., cespit. ; 

 scape 1 ft. high; fl. rose-col., in a term. head. -f-. 



2. S. Limonium : scope paniculate, terete ; leaves ob- 



long, undulate, smooth and nerveless, mucronate 

 below the tip. 

 HAB. Salt marshes. Aug.— Oct. U . Root large : 

 scape I ft. high ; pan. large ; fl. secund, blue. 



224. LINUM. Flax. Linece. 



1. L. virginianum: stem paniculate at the summit; 

 radical leaves obovate or spathulate ; cauline ones 

 lanceolate ; flowers remote, alternate ; segments 

 of the calyx acute. 

 HAB. Rocky hills. July— Aug. ©. Stem 1±— 3 

 ft. high, slend. ; leases scat. ; fl. very small, pale 

 yell, 

 h. usitatissimum? segments of the calyx ovate, acute, 

 3-nerved ; petals crewate ; leaves lanceolate, alter- 

 nate ; stem subsolitary 

 HAB. Fields. June— Jaly. ©. Stem 1—2 ft. 

 high, bran, above ; fl. large, blue. 



225. SIBBALDIA. Rosacea. 



S. procumbens : leaves ternate ; leaflets cuneate 4 

 tridentate, smooth a>>ove, hairy beneath ; flowers 

 corymbed ; petals lanceolate, acute, about as long 

 as the calyx. 



HAB. High mountains. T? Plant small, procumb. / 

 fl. yellow. 



HEXAGYNIA. 



226. DROSERA. Sun-dew. Droseraceoe. 



1 % D. rotundifolia : leaves suborbicular, dilated ; pe- 

 tiole elongated, hairy above ; racemes mostly sim 

 pie. erect. 



