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FRANKENIACE.^ 



of the only genus in the Order inhabit temperate and sub-tropical 

 regions, mostly near the sea. 



I. Frankenia (Sea-Heath). — Style divided above into three 

 oblong lobes bearing the stigma. (Name from John Franken, a 

 Swedish botanist.) 



FRANKENIA L.«:vis {Smooth Sea-Heath). 



I. F. IcBvis (Smooth Sea-Heath).^ A small procumbent plant, 

 with wiry stems ; leaves crowded, narrow, rolled back at the edges, 

 smooth, fringed at the base ; flowers rose-coloured. — Salt-marshes 

 on the south-east coast. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



Another species, F. pulverulejita (Powdery Sea-Heath), with 

 obovate leaves, pulverulent beneath, formerly grew on the Sussex 

 coast, but is now extinct. 



