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DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



1. STATICE. Linn. 



Calyx funnel-form, plaited, scarious. Petals 5. Stamen* 

 5, inserted on the petals. Styles 5. Pericarp indehiscent. 

 Flowers in spikes or heads. 



Pentandria. Pentagynia. 



1. S. limonium Linn. : scape paniculate, terete ; leaves all radical, 

 oblong, undulate, smooth and nerveless, raucronate below the tip. fir. 

 caroliniana Walt. 



HAH. Salt marshes. N. T. to Car. Aug. Oct. U.Root 

 large, lignous. Scape longer than the leaves, with several lan- 

 ceolate bracts. Flowers sessile", secund, in a very large and 

 much branched panicle, blue A valuable astringent. J3i". JW. 

 Bot > 51. Marsh Rosemary. 



2. S. armerw. Linn. : leaves all radical, linear, flat, smooth ; scape 

 simple, terete, bearing a round head of flowers. 



HAB. Rocks near the sea shore. Penn. to Vir. : /'?//>//. N. la 

 Arc. Amer. July, Aug. U.Root large, ligneous. Scope a foot 

 high. Heads ofjtmcers rose coloured, intermixed with scales and 

 having also a 3-leaved general involucre. Thrift. 



OJIDER XCVI. PLANTAGINE^E. Jus*. Lind. 



Flowers usually monoclinous,%etdom diclinous. Calyx 4- 

 parted, persistent. Carol monopetalous, persistent, with a 4- 

 parted limb. Stamens 4, inserted into the corol, alternate 

 with its segments ; filaments long, filiform, doubled inwards 

 in aestivation; anthers versatile,* 2-celled. Ovary sossili*, 

 without a disk, 2- very seldom 4-celled ; ovules solitary, in 

 pairs or indefinite ; style simple, capillary ; stigma hispid, 

 simple or rarely bifid. Capsule membranous, opening trans- 

 versely.' Seeds sessile, peltate or erect ; embryo in the axiu 

 of fleshy albumen ; radicle inferior. 



Herbs usually stemless. Leaves flat and ribbed, or taper 

 and fleshy. 



1. PL ANT AGO. Linn. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx 4-cleft. Corol 4-cleft ; border re- 

 flected. Stamens 4, mostly exserted, very long. Caj)su!L 

 2 4-celled, opening transversely. 



Tetrandria. Monogynia. 



* Leaves broad. 



1. P. cordaia Lam. : leaves on long petioles, ovate, cordate, very 

 broad, subdentate, smooth ; spike very long ; flowers subimbricated ; 



