512 PLUMBAGINE^ (LEADWORT FAMILY.) 



. 2. GOI^'lOLIItlON, Boiss. GojsIolimon. 



Calyx funnel-shaped, with scarious, 5-nerved, o-lobed limb. Petals 

 5, connate at base, but the margios of the claws touching each other, 

 and forming a tube. Filaments somewhat connected by their glan- 

 dular bases. Styles 5, free, papillose. Stigmas capitate. Utricle 

 membranous, opening by a lid — Herbs with angled or winged scapes 

 and branches. 



G. co!9iiiuiii, Griseb. 2^! 2.5 to .3, glaucescent. Leaves oblong 

 to lanceolate, aristate-mucronate, long-petioled. Scape branching from 

 near base, paniculate-corymbose, branches spreading-recurved;spikelets 

 1-flowered, clustered in short, imbricatedspikes; bracts green, leathery, 

 keeled, somewhat recurved, the outer membranous-margined, 3-tooth- 

 ed, the middle tooth longer; calyx-tube glabrous, longer than limb 



— Spring — Between Tripoli and Hamah. 



3. STATICE, L. Sea-Lavendkh. 



Caljx obconical-tubular or funnel shaped, with scarious, 5-nerved, 

 5-10-lobed limb, or 5 sepals. Corolla polypetalous, or united at base, 

 or as far as limb. Stamens adnate at base or as far as middle of petals. 

 Styles glabrous, free or short-connate at base. Stigmas filiform-cylin- 

 drical, glandular over whole surface. Utricle indurated above, mem- 

 branous below, opening by a lid, or rupturing irregularly near base 



— Perennial or annual herbs or shrubs, with flowers arranged in 3- 

 bracted spikelets. 



* Petals free or only connate at iase. 



t Floral hranches 2-Z- au7"icled, ohjiyr amidol. Calyx-insertion erect, 

 limTj hroad, 2^l(iited. Leaves sinuate t^ pinnatijid, rosetted. Annuals or 



2yereji/L^uls. 



1. S. siiiiiata, L. 7i .2 to .5, Mspid-scah-ous. Scapes crisply 

 3-5-winged, the wings ending at nodes in ternate-whorled, linear, taper- 

 ing, leaf -liAe a2/2J^ndages; Vfmgs oi Q.OT£i\ branches .001 to .002 broad; 

 lower aspect of axis covered with linear, ciliate-pectiuate scales; calyx- 

 limb blue, truncate, crenulate; corolla cream-colored — March to June — 

 Along the coast; east of Jordan (Tristram). 



2. S. Tliouini, Viv. © .2 to .4, glabrous. Fig. 241. 

 Scapes more or less 3-winged, o?ie of the wings 

 endAng at the nodes in a sliort. Hunt, od'ong ap- 

 pendage; wings of floral branches .002 to .004 

 broad, reticulate; axis nearly naked; calyx-limb 

 white, cleft to middle into 5, triangular lobes, icith 

 bristle in sinus; corolla yellow — Spring — Jor- 

 dan Valley and its flanks to the Mediterranean 

 sea-level ; south of Gaza ; Arabia Petrsea. 



t t Branches terete or angled. Calyx-insertion 

 oblique. Perennial herbs. 



3. S. Liiinoiiium, L. % .3 to .8, gla- 

 brous-glaucescent. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering to a petiole, .05 to .2 long. 

 Spikes one-sided, dense or lax, often scorpioid; ^'y'"® ^^ '-• Thouim. 

 spikelets 2-3-flowered ; bracts herbaceous, 



