AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 227 
Limontum, a very handsome plant with dense 
2-ranked spreading or recurved spikes of laven- 
der-coloured, flowers, reminding one of Helio- 
trope. More frequent, and often abundant, is 
the pink-flowering Thrift, drmerza maritima, 
sometimes placed in the genus Statice; every 
one knows the dense round tufts of linear 
leaves of this plant ; these two genera form the 
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE. 
Two species of the truly handsome £7y- 
threa, Centaury, are found on sandy shores, 
displaying dense forked tufts of pure pink 
flowers, which, however, only expand in sun- 
shine; the seaside species are £. /atzfolza, with 
broad leaves, those at the root very large, and 
E.. littoralts, a small plant, similar, but with 
narrow radical leaves. 
There are two other species often found in- 
land, which is the case also with the beautiful 
orange-yellow flowers of Chlora perfoliata, 
Yellow-wort, often found in company with 
Erythrea both inland and near the sea; its 
foliage has a deeply glaucous, grey, hue; this 
plant has the coxnate form of leaves, the two 
opposite ones so growing together at their 
base that the stem appears to perforate them. 
