ncxvxnurA monogynia. 



401 



Hoot very thick. Stem frutcscent, tliick, simple, erect* 



feet 



h\^Uj succulent, rougheiicil below witli the imbricate bases of liecayed 

 leaves. Leaven alternate, crowded, expatuHnj;, long-, lanceolate, 



rigid, verj acute, tincic, somewhat succulent, witli the luarj^ins very 

 e itire Floiven- in a lar^e, terminal, p^raniidal panicle 2 — 3 fret 

 lon^, composed of simple racemes, 4 — T flowers on the lower racemes; 

 pedicels generally abfKit an inch long, with 2 stipules at the bat^e* 

 Cabjx 0. Corolla 6 pefalJed ; petals lanceolate, acute, white, Ppa* 

 jiji^ly ciliate. Sfavif^ns |)er*-istent. Filnnientiih^lf as long as tlie co* 

 rolta, thick, compressed, pubescent. Jntliers sagittate, incumbent. 

 Germ superior. HtigmciH 3, concave, 2 cleft, obtuse, 

 glabrous, pulpy. See.ds in 2 rows in each valve. 



Capbiile oblong 



Grows on the margin of tlic ocean, on the loose sand* 

 Flowers May — August. 



3. Dracom^ ? 



¥• caulescens, raniosa ; 

 fuliis lauceolatis, crcaala- 

 tis, stnclis, veteribus nii- 

 tantibus. Sp. pK 2. p. 

 i84. 



Bearing a stem, branch- 



leaves lanceolate, 





crenulatCj strict, wlienoli 



nudUing, 



Y. Aloifolla, Walt. p. 124. Mich. l.p. 196. Pursh, 1 p. 228. 



becoming 



A large shrub, sometimes 10 — 12 feet high, when old 

 naked at the base ; in many rcspectfi similar to the preceding, but the 

 leaves arc more rigid, t.ie terminal spine (if ii may be so called) 

 stronger, and the margins rigid and roughened, (crenulate), the 

 young heaves are erect and expanding, the old ones sometimes 

 beud about tne middle, as if unable to support the weight of their sum* 

 mits, but generally droop and point to the earth before they decay. 



Grows along the sea shore, IVequeiitly mingled with the preceding 

 species; both are oruaniental giants, and have been tried for hedgc»j 

 but they become too soon naked at the base. 



Flowers May — August. 



4. RECUllVirOLlA. 



Salisbury. 



* 



Y. caulescens ; foliis 

 liiieari-laiiceulatis, recur- 

 vo-deflexis, marglne raro 

 iilamentosis ; petaiis ime- 

 rioribus latioribus. Pursh, | ineniose : the interior 



Bearing a stem ; leaves 

 linear lanceolate, recuiv- 

 t'd, deflected, with tiie 



sonR'times lila- 



in argm 



I. p. J8^8. 



petals wider than the e-ih 

 terior. 



<jiJ 



K 



