300 PLUMBAGINACE^:. (LEADWOET FAMILY.) 



flowered ; pedicels long, filiform, miiiutel y bracted in the middle ; capsule 

 globose, longer than the calyx; flowers minute. Wet places. May -July. 

 (2) Plant 6' -12' high, pale green. 



'2. S. ebracteatus, Kuuth. Stem simple or sparingly branched, naked 

 above ; leaves spatulate-obovate ; racemes few-flowered ; pedicels bractless ; 

 capsule shorter than the calyx ; flowers conspicuous. Saline marshes, Flor- 

 ida, and westward. May -June. Stem l-2 high. 



ORDER 86. PLUMB AGIN ACE^E. (LEADWORT FAMILY.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with scattered or radical and clustered leaves. 

 Calyx tubular or funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, plaited, persistent. Corolla 

 salver-shaped, 5-lobed or 5-petalous, with the 5 stamens opposite the 

 lobes or petals, and inserted on their claws or on the receptacle. Styles 

 5, distinct or united. Ovary 1-celled, with the solitary anatropous 

 ovule suspended from the apex of the filiform cord which arises from 

 the base of the cell. Fruit utricular or capsular, variously dehiscent. 

 Embryo straight in mealy albumen. 



1. STATICE, L. MARSH ROSEMARY. 



Calyx bracted ; the limb scarious, 5-lobed. Petals 5, distinct, or united by 



their claws. Stamens 5, inserted on the claws of the petals. Styles separate 

 or nearly so : stigmas slender. Utricle variously dehiscent. Perennial 

 herbs, growing in saline marshes, with fleshy chiefly radical leaves, and scape- 

 like stems. 



1. S. Caroliniana, Walt. Leaves oblong or obovate, tapering into a 

 long petiole ; scape scalv, widelv branching; flowers mostly single, in 1-sided 

 spreading spikes; calvx funnel-shaped, smooth, the lobes of the scarious limb 

 alternating with 5 smaller ones Salt marshes, Florida, and northward. 

 August . - Sept. Scape -i-2 high. Leaves 3'- 6' loug. Flowers blue. 



2. S. Brasiliensis, Boissier. Leaves oblong, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, thin ; scape and spreading panicle slender (l-2 high) ; spikelets 

 1 - 3-flowered, more or less distant ; bractlets very unequal ; calyx smooth, the 

 ovate lobes acute ; corolla white Coast of Florida to North Carolina. 



2. PLUMBAGO, Tourn. LEADWORT. 



Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, inserted on the receptacle. Styles united. Stigmas linear. Utricle 

 splitting into valves from the base upward. Herbs or shrubs, with alternate 

 entire mostly clasping leaves, and blue or white flowers in terminal spikes. 



1. P. SCandens, L. Shrubby; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 into a clasping petiole ; calyx glandular-viscid, half as long as the tube of the 

 corolla; lobes of the corolla ovate, white; style smooth. Soutli Florida. 

 Leaves 2' - 3' long. Spike elongated. 



