76 PLUMBAGINACEAE 



9. SAMOLUSL. Brookweed 



Glabrous perennial herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers small, white, S-merous, 

 in terminal racemes. Calyx adherent to the base of the ovary, campanulate. Corolla 

 nearly campanulate. Stamens 5, borne on the tube of the corolla, their filaments 

 short; a second series of stamens represented bj'' 5 sterile filaments or staminodia 

 inserted in the sinuses of the corolla and alternating with the anther-bearing sta- 

 mens. Capsule opening at the apex by 5 valves. — Species 10, all continents. ( Celtic 

 name.) 



1. S. floribundusH. B. K. Water Pimpernel. Stem commonly solitary, erect, 

 simple or branching above into 2 or 3 racemes, or paniculate, 6 to 15 inches high; 

 basal leaves rosette-like, their blades round-obovate to oblong-spatulate, obtuse or 

 almost truncate, narrowed toward the base into a broad short petiole, 1 to 2% 

 inches long; cauline leaves similar, the uppermost varying to elliptic, I/2 to 1 inch 

 long; pedicels slender, bractless, but bearing minute bract lets at their middle; flow- 

 ers % to V/o lines long; calyx-teeth short, broadly triangular; corolla very small, 

 white, its lobes almost distinct. 



Brooks and marshes, 5 to 4000 feet : Solano and Contra Costa Cos. ; cismontane 

 Southern California. North and South America. July-Sept. 



Loc3. — Suisun Marshes, Davy 4113; Antioeh, K. Brandegee ; Santa Cruz Isl., Greene; To- 

 panga Canon, Santa Monica Mts., Barber; San Bernardino Mts., Geo. Soiertson (Arrowhead 

 Sprs.), R. J. Smith (Morton Creek) ; San Bernardino, Parish; Riverside, Jcpson 14,581; Santa 

 Ana Canon, Orange Co., J. T. Howell 2775; Bolsas Creek, Orange Co., Booth 1284; Ramona, K. 

 Brandegee. 



Eefs. — Samolus flombondus H. B. K., Nov. Gen. 2:224 (1817), type loo. Callao, Peru; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 316 (1911), Man. 757 (1925). -S. valerandi var. americanus Gray, 

 Man. ed. 2, 274 (1856) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 374 (1901). 



PLUMBAGINACEAE. Thrift Family 



Maritime perennial herbs with hard or coriaceous scapes and basal leaves. 

 Flowers regular, perfect, 5-merous throughout. Calyx tubular or funnelform, 

 plaited. Petals with long claws barely united into a ring at base. Stamens oppo- 

 site the petals, adnate to the base of the claw. Ovary superior, 5-angled at summit, 

 containing a single ovule which hangs from an elongated funiculus arising from 

 the base of the cell. Styles 5. Fruit a utricle or achene, borne in the base of the 

 persistent calyx. Seed with endosperm ; embryo straight. — Genera 10, species about 

 325, all continents. 



Bibliog. — Gray, A., Plumbaginaeeae in Syn. Fl. 2:53-55 (1878). Blake, S. F., Limonium 

 in N. Am. & Mex. (Rhod. 18:53-66, pis. 118-119,-1916) ; Statice in N. Am. (Rhod. 19:1-9,— 

 1917) ; N. Am. species of Limonium (Rhod. 25:55-60,-1923). 



Leaves narrowly linear; inflorescence head-like 1. Statice. 



Leaves broad ; inflorescence paniculate 2. Limonium. 



1. STATICE L. Thrift 



Scape naked, terminating in a globose head of flowers. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 sedge-like, in a close tuft. Heads composed of numerous crowded clusters, each 

 cluster subtended by a scarious bract, the outer bracts forming an involucre, the 

 two outermost united and forming a reversed sheath to the summit of the scape. 

 Flowers pediceled or subsessile, subtended by bractlets. Calyx scarious, funnel- 

 form. Styles filiform, united at the very base. — Species about 35, all continents 

 except Australia. (Greek, statike, astringent.) , 



1. S. arctica Blake var. calif ornica Blake. California Sea-Pink. ( Fig. 325. ) 

 Scapes few or solitary, 7 to 20 inches high; leaves involute-channeled, Vs to 1 line 

 wide, bluntish at tip, (II/2 or) 4 to 8 inches long; flowers dull pink or flesh-color; 

 ealyx-tube 5-ribbed, the ribs hairy. 



