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FLOWERS OF THE SEA-COAST 



Sea Milkwort (Glaux maritima, L.) 



This diminutive plant with its delicate flowers is represented in 

 ancient deposits in Interglacial beds at West Wittering, Sussex. It 

 is found in the Northern Temperate and Arctic Zones in Arctic 

 Europe, except in Turkey, N. Asia, W. Asia, eastwards as far as 

 N.W. Himalayas, and in North America. Sea Milkwort occurs on 

 the coasts of every maritime county in Great Britain, except those of 

 estuaries in Middlesex and Lanark, as in the case of the Sea Lavender. 



Sea Milkwort is a maritime species addicted to the muddy shores 





Photo. Dr. Somerville Hastings 



SEA MILKWORT (Glanx maritima, L.) 



of estuaries and coasts generally. In this it agrees with the habitats of 

 Sea Lavender, Sea Plantain, Scurvy Grass, Sea Kale, Sea Rocket. 

 It is found also in salt-pans in Worcester and Staffordshire. 



This little plant is usually found in patches, like the Stonecrop and 

 other semi-prostrate plants. It has a suberect stem, at first prostrate. 

 The leaves are oval, bluish -green, smooth, stalkless, and entire. The 

 root-stock is stoloniferous. 



The small flowers are pink, stalkless, and unique amongst apetalous 

 flowers. The flowers are suberect, with blunt segments. The calyx 

 is bell-shaped, and does duty for the corolla, with membranous margins. 

 The anthers are prominent. The capsule is small, globose, containing 

 seeds which are plano-convex. 



