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PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA 



179. STATICE. Thrift. 



Linn. Gen. 153. Juss.92, Fl. Br. 340. Tourn. t. 177. Lam. t.2\0. 



Gcertn. t. 44. 

 Limonium. Tourn. t. 177. 



Nat. Ord. Aggregat<c. Linn. 48. Phimbagines. Juss. 33. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, funnel-shaped ; tube contracted ; hmb 

 undivided, plaited, membranous, dry and permanent. 

 Co7-. funnel-shaped, of 5 petals^ tapering downward, com- 

 bined at the base, dilated upwards, obtuse, spreading. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, shorter than the petals, and attached 

 to their claws. Anth. incumbent. Germcn roundish, 

 very minute. Styles thread-shaped, spreading, perma- 

 nent. Stigmas acute. Caj^s. oblong, somewhat cylin- 

 drical, membranous, of 1 cell, and 1 valve, with 5 points ; 

 clothed with the permanent calyx, and surmounted by its 

 filmy border. Seed solitary, elliptic-oblong, pendulous 

 by a capillary receptacle. 



Character of the fruit corrected from Gsertner. 



Rigid perennial herbs, with simple, chiefly radical, leaves. 

 Fl. red, purple, or very rarely yellow, without scent, ever- 

 lasting; either capitate, or in aggregate, panicled spikes. 



1. S. Armeria. Common Thrift. Sea Gilliflower. 



Stalks simple. Flowers capitate. Awns of the calyx minute. 

 Leaves linear. 



S. Armeria. Linn. Sp. PL 394. fVilUl. v. 1 . 1522. Fl. Br. 34 1 . 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 226. Hook. Scot. 97. 

 S. n. 835. Hall. Hist. v.\. 372. 

 S. montana minor. Rati Syn. 203. 

 Limonium aphyllocaulon minimum vulgatius, flore globose. Moris. 



V.3. 601. sect. 15. t.\.f.29. 

 Caryophyllus marinus omnium minimus. Lob. Ic.4o2.f. Ger.Em. 



602./. 

 Caryophylleus flos, aphyllocaulos vel junceus, minor et major. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 336./. 

 On muddy sea shores, as well as in the clefts of marine rocks ; and 



about the borders of alpine rills, on the loftiest mountains. 

 Perennial. July, August. 

 Root long, and woody. Leaves numerous, all radical, lax, linear, 



channelled, smooth, u little fleshy, of a deep green. Stalks a 



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