344 HAXAGYNIA MONOGYNIA. 



A. Jitspida: suflfruticose ; stem and petioles hispid; leaves doubly 

 pinnate ; leaflets ovate, incisely serrate ; umbels on long peduncles. 



BLAB. Mountains. July August. Stem l^feet high, very hispid 

 below ; peduncles axillary and terminal. 



154. STATICE. Thrift. 



S. Armeria : scape simple, terete, capitate ; leaves linear, flat. 



HAB. Sea-shore, Tj. ; leaves all radical, cespit. ; scape 1 foot hig I 



-flower rose-colored, in a terminal head. 

 S. Limonium : scape paniculate, terete ; leaves oblong, undulate, 



smooth and nerveless, mucronate below the tip. 

 HAB. Salt marshes. August October, 7J. ; root large ; scape I foot 



high ; panicles large ; Jlower secund, blue. 



155. LINUM. Flax. 



L. virginianum : stem paniculate at the summit ; radical leaves obovate 

 or spathulate ; cauline ones lanceolate ; flowers remote, alternate ; 

 segments -of the calyx acute. 



HAB. Rocky hills. July August, <"> ; stem 1J 3 feet high, slen- 

 der ; leaves scattering ; Jlower very small, pale yellow. 



L. usitatissimum : segments of the calyx ovate, acute, 3-nerved ; pe- 

 tals crenate ; leaves lanceolate, alternate ; stem subsolitary. 



HAB. Fields. June July, <v) ; stem 12 feet high, branched 

 above ; Jlower large, blue. 



HEXAGYNIA. 

 156. DROSERA. Sun-dew. 



D. rotundifolia ; leaves suborbicular, dilated ; petiole elongated, hairy 

 above ; racemes mostly simple, erect. 



HAB. Bogs. July Aug. Ij.; leaves all rad., spreading, covered 

 with brown viscidjilam. scape 4 8 in. long -Jlower secund, small, 

 white ; seeds lin. 



D. longifolia : leaves crenate, obovate, tapering below into a long 

 footstalk, erect-spreading, scape declined at the base ; stipules many- 

 cleft, capillaceous ; segments of the calyx ovate-oblong, obtuse. 



HAB. Bogs and sandy swamps. July Aug. 1|_; caudex sometirves 

 elong. scape bent and ascend. seeds ovate. 



HEXANDRIA. 

 MONOGYNIA. ^A, 



A. Flowers complete, having a calyx and corolla. 



'57. LEONTICE. Calyx 6-leaved, caducous; pet. 6, unguiculaU. 

 opposite the calyx ; nect. 5, inserted upon the claws of tne petala! 



