226 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
It is, on the whole, characteristic of the plants 
growing by the sea, that they are curious rather 
than showy; but there are several very pleas- 
ing ones which may be grouped together as 
such :—Cozvolvulus soldanella, Seaside Bind- 
weed, is a small procumbent plant with slightly 
angular venzform, kidney-shaped leaves, and 
one large handsome flower pink with yellow 
bands; Glaux maritima, known as Sea-Milk- 
wort, or Black Salt-wort, is also procumbent, 
but its stems are filled in the axils with 
numerous sessile pale-pink flowers which are 
the coloured calyces, for this plant alone of the 
Nat. Ord. Primutace# has no corolla: ‘and 
Silene maritima, a rather showy species of the 
Catch-fly or Bladder-Campion, white-bloomed, 
with calyx inflated above the middle. 
Evodium maritimum, Sea Stork’s-bill, is, un- 
like the other Erodiums, a rare plant, with very 
minute pale-red petals, often wanting. 
In contrast with this is the tall large-leafed 
Tree-Mallow, Lavatera arborea, with plaited 
velvety foliage, and large purple flowers, rare, 
on rocks, occasionally in gardens. 
Statice, Sea-Lavender, five species, is a mari- 
time genus, of which the most frequent is S. 
