390 LXXXVI. LENTIBULACES. PINGUICULA. 
Properties.—The root of Statice Limonium is one of the best and most powerful of all astringents. 
The species of Plumbago are acrid and escharotic, so much 80, that the roots of P. Europzus are said by 
Lindley to be employed in Europe by beggars, to raise blisters on the face, in order to excite compassion. 
Genera. 
Inflorescence an involucrate head. nee Semen ern wer ek eS he ep SR 
Inflorescence a panicle of racemes. a ot SAE ase ee. «2 
1 ARMERIA. Willd. 
Flowers collected in a dense head; invol. 3—many-leaved ; cal. 
tubular-campanulate, 5-angled, with 5 shallow lobes, carious and 
plaited ; petals 5, almost distinct; sta. 5, inserted on the base of the 
petals; styles 5, distinct; fr. indehiscent, invested with the calyx— 
Y. Lvs. radical, mostly linear. Scape simple, appendaged above. 
A. vuucaris. Willd. (Statice Armeria. Linn.) Thrift. 
Scape terete, smooth, lvs. linear, flat, obtuse ; outer bracts of the invol. ovate, 
acute, shorter than the sheathing appendage at their base.—A neat and elegant 
plant, native near the sea-coast, Brit. Am. Hook, N. Eng.? Middle and South- 
ern States. Often cultivated. Leaves 3—4’ by 2—3”, numerous, crowded. 
Scape about If high, bearing a singular sheath at top; formed, accerding to 
Lindley, by the adherent bases of the involucral leaves. Involucre about 3- 
leaved. Flowers showy, rose-colored. Jn.—Aug. ft 
2,.STATICE. : 
Gr. crariéw, to stop; for, used medicinally, it stops the diarrhoea, says Pliny. ~ 
Flowers scattered in a paniculate or spicate inflorescence, otherwise 
essentially the same asin Armeria.—% Lvs. radical or caulwne, dilated, — 
mostly entire. Invol. 0. 
1. S. Limonium. (S. Carolinianum. Walt.) Marsh Rosemary. 
Scape terete, paniculate; Jvs. all radical, ovate-lanceolate, undulate, 
smooth, obtuse, mucronate below the tip.—Salt marshes, R. |. Olney! to Md.! 
and Car. Scape about a foot high, with several lanceolate, clasping bracts, 
and supporting at top a broad, branching panicle composed of close, secund 
spikes of sessile, blue flowers. Petals obovate, unguiculate, bearing the sta- 
mens on their claws. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, broader in the upper half, 
smooth, veinless, on long petioles. The root is large, ligneous, strongly astrin- 
gent, much valued in medicine. Aug.—Oct. 
Orper LXXXVI. LENTIBULACE &.—Borterworts. 
Plants herbaceous, aquatic. Lvs. radical, undivided, or compound, root-like and bearing vesicles Of air. 
Scapes generally simple, naked or with bracts, with few or many showy flowers. 
Cail. inferior, of 2 or 5 sepals united or distinct at base. 
Cor. irregular, bilabiate, personate, spurred. . ' 
Sta. 2, included within the corolla and inserted on its upper lip. Ath. 1-celled. 
Ova. 1-celled, with a free, central placenta. Style1. Stigma cleft. 
Fr.—Capsule many-seeded. Sds. minute ; embryo none. 
Genera 4, species 175, natives of swamps, pools and rivulets, diffused throughout nearly all countries. 
Properties unimportant. 
Genera. 
Cc 4—5-cleft, capsule 5-celled. . ‘ ; 
2-parted, subequal. Capsule 1-celled. 
1 PINGUICULA. 
Lat. pinguis, fat; from the greasy appearance of the leaves. 
Calyx bilabiate, upper lip trifid, lower bifid ; cor. bilabiate or rare- 
ly subregular, upper lip bifid or 2-parted, lower trifid or pps spur- 
red at base beneath; sta. 2, very short; stig. sessile, 2-lobed; caps. 
erect; seeds 00.—% In wet places. Lvs. radical, rosulate, entire. 
Scapes 1-flowered, nodding. 
P. vuiearis. Butterwort. 
Las. ovate or elliptic, obtuse, unctious-puberulent above; scape and cal. 
subpubescent; cor. lips very unequal, lobes obtuse; spur cylindrical, shorter 
. «+ Pingutcula 1. 
- « Utricularia 2. 
