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bracts and bractlets, the former involucrate with the two outermost reflexed and sheath- 

 Hke. Calyx funnelform, 5-toothed and 10-ribbed, scarious, oblique at base. Petals, 5, 

 distinct or more or less united. Stamens 5, adnate to the base of the petals. Styles 

 united at base, longitudinally stigmatic above, pubescent below. Fruit a utricle, rarely 

 dehiscent, 5-pointed at the apex. [The old Latin name.] 



About 50 species, inhabiting north temperate regions and southern S9Uth America. Types species Statice 

 Armeria L. This is also the standard species of Statue L., but the generic name Armeria, has been conserved. 



L Armeria arctica subsp. calif ornica (Boiss.) Abrams. California Thrift. 



Fig. 3776. 



Armeria andina var. calif ornica Boiss. in A. DC. Prod. 12: 682. 1848. 

 Statice arctica var. calif ornica Blake, Rhodora 19: 9. 1917. 



Plants tufted, from a long tapering taproot. Leaves in a dense basal tuft, narrowly linear, 

 4-15 cm long, 2-3.5 mm. wide, rounded at apex, glabrous throughout; scapes 1 to several, 

 5-40 cm. high; heads compact, 15-25 mm. thick; reflexed sheathing bracts 1-2 cm. long, outer 

 involucrate bracts 3, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, scarious-margined, 8-15 mm. long, the inner 

 ones about 7, broadly elliptic, rounded at apex, spikelets 3-flowered, the subtending bract cuneate- 

 elliptic ; bractlets broadly oval ; calyx 6.5-7 mm. long, pubescent on the ribs, otherwise glabrous ; 

 calyx-lobes about 1 mm. long, broadly triangular ; petals lilac-pink. 



BlufTs and exposed grasslands along the seashore. Humid Transition Zone; coast of Oregon to San Luis 

 Obispo County and Santa Rosa Island, California. Type locality: California. Collected by Coulter. April- 

 Aug. Sea-pink. 



Armeria arctica (Cham.) Wallr. Beitr. Bot. 193. 1844. The typical species differs in having narrnwer, 

 acute or acutish leaves that are ciliolate at least below. Alaska to Vancouver Islatid. Plants on the Olympic 

 Peninsula, Washington, are more or less intermediate between the typical species and subsp. cahformca. 



Family 118. STYRACACEAE. 



Storax Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate, entire or serrate leaves, and mostly 

 stellate pubescence. Flowers regular, perfect or rarely polygamodioecious, clus- 

 tered and appearing with or sometimes before the leaves. Calyx 4-8-toothed or 

 entire, the tube more or less adnate to the ovary. Corolla 4-8-lobed or the petals 

 sometimes distinct. Stamens twice as many as the corolla-segments or sometimes 

 more, in 1 series, attached to the tube or the base of the corolla, the filaments often 

 connate at base. Ovary partly inferior, 2-5-celled ; ovules 1 to few in each cell, 

 anatropous ; stvie slender ; stigmas entire or 2-5-lobed. Fruit a berry or drupe, often 

 nearly dry, indehiscent, 1 -seeded, or 2-5-celled with 1 seed in each cell. Endo- 

 sperm copious ; embryo straight or slightly curved ; cotyledons flat. 



A family of about 7 genera and 120 species, mostly tropical. 



1. STYRAX L. Sp. PI. 444. 1753. 



Shrubs or small trees, stellate-pubescent and often lepidote, with mostly deciduous 

 leaves and rather showy white drooping flowers in terminal or axillary few-flowered 

 clusters, appearing before or with the leaves. Calyx persistent, adnate at base to the 

 ovary, its limb obscurely 5-toothed. Petals 5 and distinct or united at base. Stamens 

 usually 10, the filaments united below or rarely separate, attached to the base of the 

 corolla; anthers linear. Ovary nearly free from the calyx, usually 3-celled at base; 

 ovules several in each cell ; stigma 3-lobed or entire. Fruit nearly dry, globose or ellipsoid 

 coriaceous, usually only 1-seeded, 3-valved at apex. [The ancient Greek name of Storax.] 



A genus of about 70 species, native of Asia, southern Europe and North and South America. Besides the 

 wing, four other species occur in the eastern and southern United States. Type species, Styrax officinalis L. 



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1. Styrax calif ornica Torr. California Storax. Fig. 3777. 



Styrax calif ornica Torr. Smiths. Contr. 61: 4. 1853. 



Styrax officinalis var. calif ornica Rehder. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Gesellsch. 24: 226. 1915. 



Arborescent shrub, 1.5-3 m. high, with smooth gray-brown branchlets. Leaves deciduous, 

 suborbicular to broadly ovate, obtuse to shallowly cordate at base, obtuse or rounded at apex, 

 2-6 cm. long, entire, glabrous above, paler and somewhat cinereous beneath with a stellate 

 pubescence especially on the veins; petioles slender, 3-10 mm. long, stellate-pubescent and 

 sometimes glandular; flowers white, in clusters of 2-A terminating the branchlets; calyx and 

 clavate pedicel goblet-shaped, the limb truncate and very obscurely and remotely toothed ; petals 

 5-10, oblong-oblanceolate, 10-15 mm. long; filaments pubescent below; fruit nut-like, the ovoid- 

 globose seed 12-14 mm. broad, light brown, smooth. 



Hillsides and canyons, mainly Upper Sonoran Zone; foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Inner Coast Range, 

 from Shasta County to Lake and Tulare Counties, California. Type locality: upper Sacramento River, col- 



