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PENTANDRIA PENTAGYMA. 



179. STATICE. Thrift. 



Linn.Gen.\53, Juss. 92, FLBr.ZAO. Tourn,t.\77. Lam.t.2\9. 

 Gcertn. t. 44. 



Limonium. Tourn. t.\77 . 



Nat. Ord. AggregaUe. Linn. 48. Plumhagincs. Juss. 33. 



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

 undivided, plaited, membranous, dry and permanent. 

 Cor, funnel-shaped, of 5 j)etals^ tapering downward, com- 

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

 Pz7«w. awl-shaped, shorter than the petals, and attached 

 to their claws. Antlu incumbent. Genncn roundish, 

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

 nent. Stigmas acute. Caps, 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 cor-rected from Goertner. 



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 sjnkes. 



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



Stalks simple. Flowers capitate. Awnsof tlie calyx minute. 

 Leaves linear. 



S. Armeria. Linn. Sp. PL 394. mild, v. 1. 1522. Fl. Br. 341. 



Enol. Bot. v. 4. t. 22G. Hook. Scot. 97. 

 S. n. 835. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 372. 

 S. montana minor. Raii Sijn. 203. 

 Limonium aphyllocaulon minimum vulgatius, florc gioboso. Moris. 



r. 3. GO \. sect. 15./. 1 ./. 29. 

 Caryoj)hyllusmarinus omnium minimus. Lub. Ic. i^)2.f. Gcr Em 



602./. 

 Caryophylleus flos, aphyllocaulos vcl junccus;, minor ct major. 



Baiih. Hist. V. 3. ;>. 2. 33fj./. 



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

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



Perennial. Juhj, Aut;usl. 



Hoot long, and woody. Leaves numerous, all radical, lax, hnear, 

 channelled, smooth, a little tleshv, of a deep green. Stalks a 



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