482 PLUMBAGINACEAE 
LoosestrirE. Plant slightly downy or smooth, 1 to 2 ft. high; leaves in 
whorls of 4s, sometimes of 5s, or more or less than 4, without leaf-stalks, 
lance-shaped or oblong, 1 to 4 in. long. Flowers in whorls at the leaf- 
axils, on long thread-like pedicels. Corolla wheel-shaped, the petals ob- 
long-egg-shaped. Moist soils. Common. June-Aug. 
4. L. terrestris, (L.) Ait. (Fig. 1, pl. 120.) BuLs-Beartne LOoosE- 
sTRIFE. (L. stricta, Ait.) Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, often bearing small 
globular bulbs at the axils. Leaves opposite or rarely some of them 
alternate, lance-shaped, tapering at each end with short leaf-stalks or 
none, 1 to 3 in. long, often dotted with black points. Flowers yellow 
with purple streaks, about 4 in. broad, in terminal pyramidal cluster, 
each on a thread-like pedicel. Swampy places. July-Sept. 
5. L. Nummularia, L. (Vig. 3, pl. 119.) Creerprne LoosEstTRIFeE. 
An introduced species, from Europe, escaped from gardens, not common. 
Stems creeping, extending 1 to 2 ft. Leaves roundish, opposite on short 
leaf-stalks, 4 to 1 in. long. Flowers yellow about an in. broad. July- 
Sept. 
Famity JI.—PLUMBAGINACEAE. PLtumpBaco FAMILY 
Herbs, ours with the leaves all radicle. Flowers perfect but 
small, in clusters at the summit of a flower stem. Calyx not ad- 
herent to ovary, its parts more or less united, tubular, with 5 
points. Corolla of 5 lobes; stamens 5 opposite the petals; styles 
5. Fruit a dry one-seeded pod. A single species in our region. 
LIMONIUM, Adams. (Statice, Tour.) 
Herb growing at the sea-side, with thick perennial leaves arising at the 
base and with naked, branching flowering stem bearing large numbers of 
lavender-colored flowers. Flowers one-sided on the branches; calyx 
5-lobed; the lobes linear; corolla bell-formed, tubular, 5-parted. Stamens 
5, usually attached to the lobes of the corolla. 
L. carolinianum, (Walt.) Britton. (Fig. 8, pl. 119.) Sra Laven- 
DER. MaArsu RoseMARY. Leaves narrow, broadest toward the apex, taper- 
ing into long leaf-stems, one conspicuous rib tipped with a bristly point. 
Stems with flower cluster 1 to 2 ft. high. Salt meadows, all along our 
coast. July-Oct. 
Order III—EBENALES. Order of the Ebonys 
Shrubs or trees, with hard wood. Flowers with stamens as many 
as the corolla lobes or twice as many; with both stamens and pis- 
tils or staminate and pistillate flowers separate. Fruit a berry. 
Famity I—EBENACEAE. [Epsony Famity 
Calyx well developed, 5- to 7-parted, but its parts united below 
the fruit. Ovary free from calyx; in the staminate flowers it is 
