AIOIEIUA.] PLUMBAGINE^E. 305 



1. ARME'RIA, Willd. THRIFT, SEA-PINK. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves all radical, very narrow. Flowers pedicelled, 

 fascicled in small bracteate cymes, which are collected into a dense 

 hemispheric head ; involucre tubular, scarious, reverted, sheathing the top 

 of the scape downwards. Calyx funnel-shaped, scarious. Petals cohering 

 at the very base, persistent and covering the utricle. Filaments inserted 

 on the petals, bases dilated. Ovary obovoid ; stigmas capillary, papillose. 

 Utricle with 5 hard bosses at the top, dehiscing tiansversely or irregularly 

 below. DISTRIB. Alpine, Arctic and maritime N. temp, regions, Chili ; 

 species 30. ETYM. The monkish Latin Flos Armcrice, applied to a Pink. 



1. A. vulga'ris, Willd. ; pubescent or ciliate, leaves linear usually 

 1 -nerved. A. maritima and alpina, Willd.; A. pubescens. Link; A. 

 pubigera, scotica, Boissier ; A. duriuscula, Bab. ; Statice Armeria, L. 

 Rocky and stony sea-shores and on lofty mountains, ascending to 3,800 ft. in 



the Highlands ; fl. April-Oct. Rootstock woody, branched. Leaves densely 

 fascicled, 1-6 in., ^V- f n broad, obtuse or acute, covered with impressed 



n'nts on both surfaces. Scape 3-12 in., hairs spreading or reflexed ; heads 

 in. diam. ; involucral (reverted) bract ^-1 in., lacerate ; outer bracts 

 shorter than the head, ovate, acute or produced into long brown or green 

 points ; inner oblong, obtuse, scarious ; pedicel -J in., equalling the calyx. 

 Calyx decurrent on the pedicel, with 5 pubescent ribs, lobes cuspidate. 

 Petals % in., rose-pink or white, limb obovate. Utricle exceeding the calyx- 

 tube. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), Asia, N. America, Chili. 

 VAR. planifo'lia, Syme ; leaves broader, flat above, sometimes 3-nerved. 



2. A. plantagin'ea, Willd. ; glabrous, leaves narrow-lanceolate usually 

 3--nerved, calyx-lobes awned. 



Sandy banks, &c., St. Brelade's Bay and on the Quenvais, Jersey ; fl. June- 

 Aug. More rigid, stouter and larger than A. vulgaris ; leaves Vn-J in. 

 broad, narrowed into long points, margins cartilaginous and undulate when 

 dry ; scapes taller ; reverted involucral bracts longer and less deeply cut ; 

 outer bracts with usually a long herbaceous point exceeding the head ; 

 flowers darker, on shorter pedicels. DISTRIB. Mid. and S. Europe. Syme 

 describes a probable hybrid between this and A. vulgaris, as growing with 

 them at St. Brelade's Bay. 



2. STAT'ICE, L. SEA^LAVENDER. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves all radical. Flowers shortly pedicelled, in 

 1- or more-flowered 3-bracteate spikelets, which are alternately distichously 

 or secundly arranged in branched panicles. Calyx obconic ; limb scarious, 

 5-lobed. Petals free or united at the very base. Filaments inserted on 

 the petals. Ovary obovoid or oblong ; styles free or connate at the base, 

 stigmas capillary, papillose. Fruit as in Armeria. DISTRIB. Chiefly 

 saline districts and shores of temp, seas, most common in W. Asia ; species 

 50-60. ETYM. The Greek name for some astringent herb. 



* Leaves pinnately-veined. Calyx-lobes icith intermediate teeth. 



1. S. Limo'nium, L. ; leaves usually long-petioled 1 -ribbed, scape 

 branched above, branches nearly all flowering. 

 Muddy shores, from Holy Is. on the E. and Wigton on the W. southwards ; 



and in Ireland ; fl. July-Nov. Glabrous. Rootstock stout, woody, creeping, 

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