PENTAND. PENTAG. 97 



Hab. Bogs and wet pastures, frequent. Fl. Aug. 11. 



Leaves mostly radical, on long footstalks, cordate, entire, nerved, one 

 on the stem below the middle, sessile. Stem angular, from 1 inch 

 (as I have seen it in N. Ilonaldsha,and Orkney, with perfect flowers) 

 to 8 or 10 inches high, angular. Floiver solitary, terminal, large, very 

 handsome, yellowish white. Petals broadly obovate. Nectaries, 

 each an obcordate sctde, with white hairs along the margin, wliicli 

 are terminated by a yellow, pellucid, globular gland. 



5. PENTAGYNIA. 



73. STATICE. 



1. S. Armeria {Thrift)^ leaves linear, scape simple bearing a 

 round head of flowers. Light/, p. 173. E. B. t, 22G. 



Hab. Common on the muddy shores of the sea, in salt marshes, and 

 upon the tops of the highest mountains. ¥1. July, Aug. 1/ . 



Heads of /towers rose coloured, intermixed with scales, and having 

 besides a brown membranous three-leaved general involucrum, ter- 

 minating below in a sheathing jagged covering to the upper part of 

 the scape. 



2. S. Limonium (Sea-lavender)^ scape panicled rounded branch- 

 ed, leaves glabrous ovato-lanceolate undulate obtuse nerveless 

 tipped with a small point. E. B. t. 102. 



Hab. Coast of Galloway, near Kirkcudbright, common, Maugh. 

 Leaves large, radical, thick, subcoriaceous. Floicers crowded, secund, 

 accompanied with membranaceous scales, bright blue. 



3. S. reticulata (jnatted Sea-Lave7ider), scape repeatedly diclio- 

 tomous zigzag, the lower branches sterile, leaves spathulate 

 acute glabrous. E. B. t. 328. 



Hab. Mull of Galloway, Mr. GoZJ;e. Fl. Aug. 1/. 



Leaves small, spreading. Flowers somewhat spiked on the terminal 



branches of the scape, purplish. Whole plant not more than from 



4 to G inches high. 



74. LINUM. 



1. L, usilatissimum (common Flax), leaves lanceolate alternate, 

 cal. leaves acute 3-nerved, jjctals crenate, stem subsolitarv. 

 Light/, p. \7 3. 



Hab. Corn-fields. H. July. Q. 



One or one foot and a half high, slender, branched above. Leaves di- 

 stant. Flowers large, purplish blue. From the i^tem/ax is made, 

 and from the seed a valuable oil is extracted. 



2. L. catharlicum (purging Flax), leaves opposite oblong, stem 

 dichotomous above, petals acute. Light/', p. \7 4. E.B.t.3H2. 



Hab. Common in dry pastures. F/. June, July. ©. 

 Stem slender, upright, '2—6 inches high. Flowers gracefully drooping 

 before expansion, white, small. 



75. SIBBALDIA. 



1. S. procuvihens iproaimhent Sibbaldia), leaves ternate, leaflets 



wedge-shaped tridendate. Light/, p. 175. E. B. t. 897. 



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