374? ' PENTANDRIA PENTACYNlA. 



liohs oblango-ovalibus ; 1 ate ; leaflets oblong oval ; 

 scapo nudo, folio brevi- scape naked, shorter than 

 ore; iimbelluh's paucis. the leaf ; umbels few. . 

 Piirsh, 1. p. SOQ. • I 



Mich. 1. p. 185. Sp. pi. 1. p. 1521. 



Stem very short, or rather none. Leaves 2, flecompound, witli long 

 petioles. Leaves 3 parteil, the divisions pinnate, bearin.:? 5 pair of 

 leaflets. Scape shooting from between the leaves, 3 cleft ot bear- 

 ing 3 small umbels. Linn. 



Grows in shaded, rocky soils, in the mountains. Pursh. 

 Flowers Mav — June. 



STATICE. Gen. pl. 5'27, 



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CaJijx l.phylhis, inte- I i Cali/x i leaved, entire, 



ger,^ plicatus, scariosus. j plaited, scariose. Petals 



Pdala 5. Semen ], su- j 5. Seed i, superior. 

 peruiTi. 



1. LiMONlUM .? 



S. scapo paniculato, I Scape panicled, terete ; 

 tereti; foliis Isevibus, en- j leaves smooth, without 

 ervils,undulatis,subapice nerves, undulate, mucro- 

 mucronatis, Pers. l. p. | nate below the summit. 



sp. pl. I. p. 1325. 



Statice Caroliniana, Walt. p. 118. Pursh, 1. p. 212. 



Boot perennial, thick, woody, scaly near the surface of the 

 ground. Radical leaves somewhat obovate, entire, obtuse, emargi- 

 nate, with a minute point bent underneath, narrowed at base to a 

 long petiole ; stem leaves, a few scales embracing the stem and the 

 base of the branches. Panic e composed of spikef with the flowers 

 pointing one way (secun !). Involucrum 3 leaved, 2 flowered ; the 

 2 lo^er leaves lanceolate, mucronate, membranaceous; the uppeP 

 rounded coloured, with the mar^an scarious ; the interior flower has 

 also a 2 leaved, membranaceous involucrum. Valux 10 t.)othcd, hairy 

 at base, the teeth alternately very minute : calyx and involucrum 

 persistent. Tetals lon-^er thaii the calyx, obovate, blue. Filamenis 

 shorter than .he corol a, attached to fl/e base of th; petals. Mthers 

 incumbent dark purp e. Germ superior, 5 angled^ Styles si^0Ti^v 

 than the stamens Sti^mas thickened. Seed oblong, an|led, trun- 

 cate, covered by the calvx. ° o ^ ^ 



Grows among the rushes along the sea shore. 



*lowersJuIy — October. ir t t, 



llie root IS very astnno-enf ^n.! Tg iiq«,4 k« «. c .\ : ..^ 



•T.Ar>iahi^ u • • "^ *«^y"c»t^nij ana is used by many of the most re- 

 spectable physicians ot the V?iddle and Eastern States instead of 

 Kino or any other vegetable astringent. A decoctio . of t^^^^ as 



a wa.h m ulcerous sore throat is al old famii/pr^^^^^^^^ 



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